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hits home

hits home is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hit home.

Meaning of hit home

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To be especially memorable, meaningful, or significant; to be fully understood, believed or appreciated.
    • Do you think the message really hit home with him?
  2. (or projectile) To strike its target with damaging effect.
    • This revised situation doesn't go well for poor old Nagato. Whilst curls of smoke and scorch marks along the hulls and superstructures of Washington and Alabama do tell of some Japanese shells hitting home, neither of them seem particularly perturbed by this. Instead, their fire begins to overhaul...2021 May 5, Drachinifel, 32:32 from the start, in Battle of Samar - What if TF34 was there?, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2022

Questions about hits home

What is hits home the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Hits home is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hit home.

Words near hits home in the dictionary

  1. hits back
  2. hits below one's weight
  3. hits below the belt
  4. hits bottom
  5. hits different
  6. hits home
  7. hits into the long grass
  8. hits it and quits it
  9. hits it big
  10. hits it for six
  11. hits it from the back

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