hit

hit
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noun
1 act of hitting sth/sb
ADJECTIVE
▪ direct
VERB + HIT
▪ deliver, give sth, land, make, score
▪

Give it a good hit.

▪

At last he managed to score a hit.

▪ receive, suffer, take
▪

One of the tanks took a direct hit.

HIT + NOUN
▪ list
▪

She was at the top of the terrorists' hit list (= list of people they intended to kill).

▪

Which services are on the government's hit list? (figurative)

▪ man, squad
▪

He claimed that a hit man had been paid $20 000 to kill him.

2 sb/sth that is very popular
ADJECTIVE
▪ big, greatest, huge, massive, real, runaway, smash
▪

The show has been a smash hit.

▪ surprise
▪ breakout (AmE)
▪ immediate, instant
▪ box-office, chart (esp. BrE), pop (esp. BrE)
▪

She is here to promote her latest chart hit.

HIT + NOUN
▪ album, film (esp. BrE), movie (esp. AmE), record, show, single, song
PREPOSITION
▪ hit with
▪

The series has been a big hit with children.

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verb
1 strike
ADVERB
▪ hard
▪

She didn't hit me very hard.

▪ repeatedly
▪ directly
▪

He was hit directly in the back.

▪ almost, nearly
▪

A taxi almost hit him as he was crossing the street.

▪ accidentally
▪

I accidentally hit my knee on the desk.

VERB + HIT
▪ want to
▪

I was so angry, I wanted to hit him.

▪ be going to
▪

I was afraid he was going to hit me.

PREPOSITION
▪ in
▪

She hit him in the face.

▪ on
▪

I hit my head on the low doorway.

▪ with
▪

He hit her with a stick.

PHRASES
▪ hit sb over the head
▪

He was hit over the head with a broken bottle.

2 have a bad effect on sb/sth
ADVERB
▪ badly, hard, heavily, severely
▪

Our department has been badly hit by the cutbacks.

▪

Some businesses have been hit very hard by the rise in interest rates.

Hit is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑arrow, ↑ball, ↑batsman, ↑blast, ↑blizzard, ↑bomb, ↑bullet, ↑car, ↑craze, ↑crisis, ↑cyclone, ↑debris, ↑disaster, ↑earthquake, ↑fire, ↑fist, ↑flood, ↑foot, ↑head, ↑hurricane, ↑idea, ↑illness, ↑inspiration, ↑jinx, ↑lightning, ↑magazine, ↑missile, ↑moonlight, ↑mortar, ↑nausea, ↑pain, ↑ray, ↑realization, ↑recession, ↑rocket, ↑shell, ↑ship, ↑shot, ↑smell, ↑stock, ↑storm, ↑sun, ↑thought, ↑tornado, ↑torpedo, ↑train, ↑typhoon, ↑unemployment, ↑wave
Hit is used with these nouns as the object: ↑accelerator, ↑ball, ↑bar, ↑baseball, ↑bonnet, ↑brake, ↑bump, ↑button, ↑chart, ↑circuit, ↑climax, ↑coast, ↑convoy, ↑cymbal, ↑desk, ↑drive, ↑drum, ↑ear, ↑earth, ↑elbow, ↑fist, ↑floor, ↑forehead, ↑ground, ↑gym, ↑head, ↑headline, ↑high, ↑highway, ↑hood, ↑hurdle, ↑jackpot, ↑kerb, ↑key, ↑lottery, ↑low, ↑lull, ↑mainstream, ↑mall, ↑mark, ↑market, ↑middle age, ↑milestone, ↑mine, ↑morale, ↑news, ↑note, ↑opponent, ↑patch, ↑peak, ↑per cent, ↑pitch, ↑puberty, ↑roadblock, ↑run, ↑sack, ↑shin, ↑shore, ↑shower, ↑showroom, ↑slope, ↑smash, ↑snag, ↑stage, ↑store, ↑stumbling block, ↑surface, ↑switch, ↑target, ↑town, ↑trail, ↑vein, ↑verge, ↑volley

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