hitting

Meaning of hitting

verb
  1. (heading, physical) To strike.
  2. To manage to touch (a target) in the right place.
    I hit the jackpot.
  3. To switch on.
    Somebody's been here! Hit the lights!
  4. To briefly visit.
    We hit the grocery store on the way to the park.
  5. To encounter an obstacle or other difficulty.
    You'll hit some nasty thunderstorms if you descend too late.  We hit a lot of traffic coming back from the movies.
  6. (heading) To attain, to achieve.
  7. To affect negatively.
    The economy was hit by a recession.  The hurricane hit his fishing business hard.
  8. To attack.
  9. (heading, games) To make a play.
  10. To use; to connect to.
    The external web servers hit DBSRV7, but the internal web server hits DBSRV3.
  11. To have sex with.
    I'd hit that.
  12. To inhale an amount of smoke from a narcotic substance, particularly marijuana.
noun
  1. A series of hits or blows directed at a person or object.
    Their conflict ended in hitting.
  2. The skill of hitting.
    The batter's hitting improved with practice.

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Hyphenation of hitting

hit-ting

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • hitting is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

hitting synonyms

Meaning hit:

hit, striking

Meaning :

beat, pelt, thump, beset, bang, ram, smash, whack, toke

hitting antonyms

Meaning :

miss, cut, kill

Anagrams of hitting

tithing

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