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hitting up against

hitting up against is the present participle and gerund of hit up against.

Meaning of hit up against

Verb

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

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hit, up against.
  2. (figuratively, intransitive) To encounter barriers, problems or resistance due to (someone or something).
    • Our economic growth model will eventually hit up against hard ecological constraints.

Questions about hitting up against

What is hitting up against the present participle and gerund of?
Hitting up against is the present participle and gerund of hit up against.

Words near hitting up against in the dictionary

  1. hitting times
  2. hitting too close to home
  3. hitting two birds with one shot
  4. hitting two targets with one arrow
  5. hitting up
  6. hitting up against
  7. hitting upon
  8. hitting with
  9. hitting with the stupid stick
  10. hittingest
  11. hittings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hitting up against (page history and authors); hit up against (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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