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hit out

hit out verb: to strike out with the fist, usually without planning or accuracy.

Verb

hit out (third-person singular simple present hits out, present participle hitting out, simple past and past participle hit out)

  1. To strike out with the fist, usually without planning or accuracy.
    • Feeling somebody grab at his wallet in the darkness, he hit out at the assailant.
  2. (figuratively) To react viciously (towards someone/something).
    • 'What have we done? What shall we ever do? Just drift and criticize, while people who know what they want snatch it away from us and laugh.”
      “Perhaps you are that sort. I’m not. When the moment comes I shall hit out like any ploughboy. …"1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part II, XX [Uniform ed., p. 204]
    • Obama [told] aides while he was still in office that he would see Warren’s rise as a “repudiation of him” and his economic policies. Obama appeared to hit out at Warren during an event earlier this month when he warned Democrats not to be “deluded” that “resistance” to “bold” ideas will simply melt...2019 November 27, Igor Derysh, “Obama privately vowed to intervene in primary to stop Bernie Sanders from winning nomination: report”, in Salon
  3. (obsolete) To perform by good luck.
    • having the sound of those auncient poets still ringing in his eares, he mought needes, in singing, hit out some of their tunes1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC
  4. To leave; to head out.

hit out meaning in Telugu

hit out in Telugu

to hit out
పొడుచు poḍucu

Forms of hit out

third-person singular presenthits out
present participlehitting out
past participlehit out
pasthit out

Questions about hit out

What does hit out mean?
Hit out means to strike out with the fist, usually without planning or accuracy.
What is hit out in Telugu?
Hit out in Telugu is పొడుచు (poḍucu). See Hit out meaning in Telugu.
What part of speech is hit out?
Hit out is a verb.
What is the past tense of hit out?
The past tense of hit out is hit out.

Words near hit out in the dictionary

  1. hit one out of the ball park
  2. hit one out of the ballpark
  3. hit one's marks
  4. hit one's straps
  5. hit one's stride
  6. hit out
  7. hit out of the park
  8. hit parade
  9. hit parades
  10. hit pause
  11. hit pay dirt

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hit out (page history and authors); పొడుచు (Telugu) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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