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Synonyms for hit

Most common

reach make catch gain smash strike shoot smoke up

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

3. Shoot

shoot, pip

4. Smoke up — to inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana

smoke up, toke

Noun

Definitions

  1. v. 1

    To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.

  2. v. 2

    To strike. To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.

  3. v. 3

    To strike. To come into contact with forcefully and suddenly.

  4. n. 1

    A blow; a punch; a striking against; the collision of one body against another; the stroke that touches anything.

Forms

Plural
hits → successes, strikings, collisions, smashers…

Example sentences

  • reach I placed the medicine out of the children's reach.
  • knock What should we do if the police knock at our door?
  • smash Did you smash the window willingly or unwillingly?
  • ram The RAM in a computer is its random access memory.
  • spike Lukas noticed a spike strip in Amelia's driveway.
  • stumble Sometimes I just stumble upon the funniest memes.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
hitrising
reachsteady
knockrising
smashrising
ramfalling
spikesteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
off1, ram1, pip1
4 letters
make1, rock1, beat1, gain1, blow1, bang1, slam1, bump1, slap1, toke, offn
5 letters
reach1, catch1, touch1, shoot1, occur2, knock1, blast1, punch1, smash1, spike1, smack1, whack1, beset2, thump1
6 letters
chance1, attack2, impact2, strike1, stroke1, attain2, ravage2
7 letters
success2, stumble2, smasher2
8 letters
striking2
9 letters
collision3

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (occur2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
se taper
Italiano
beccarsi