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hit upon

hit upon verb: to address.

Verb

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

  1. To address.
    • He hit upon all major concerns during the presentation.
  2. (idiomatic) To think of; to discover or invent.
    • So next day the hunting began. I did not know how to shoot, but I proceeded to learn. And when I had expended some thirty shells for three seals, I decided that the ammunition would be exhausted before I acquired the necessary knowledge. I had used eight shells for lighting fires before I hit upon...1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC
    • They hit upon the idea of a site that would help users exchange video files.2006 October 10, Miguel Helft, Matt Richtel, “Venture Firm Shares a YouTube Jackpot”, in New York Times

hit upon meaning in Bengali

hit upon in Bengali

সম্বোধন করা, কোনো কিছু ভাবা

Forms of hit upon

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

Questions about hit upon

What does hit upon mean?
Hit upon means to address.
What is hit upon in Bengali?
Hit upon in Bengali is সম্বোধন করা, কোনো কিছু ভাবা. See Hit upon meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is hit upon?
Hit upon is a verb.
What is the past tense of hit upon?
The past tense of hit upon is hit upon.

Words near hit upon in the dictionary

  1. hit too close to home
  2. hit two birds with one shot
  3. hit two targets with one arrow
  4. hit up
  5. hit up against
  6. hit upon
  7. hit ups
  8. hit wicket
  9. hit with
  10. hit with the stupid stick
  11. hit-a-pin bagatelle

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hit upon (page history and authors); hit upon (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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