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# hit

«hit» in Mova's school dictionary: **To touch someone or something hard and fast with your…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (hit, hits, hit, hitting); noun (a hit, hits)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To touch someone or something hard and fast with your hand, a bat or an object. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hit/#m1)

2) To bump into something by accident: «The car hit a tree». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hit/#m2)

3) A noun: a hit or blow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hit/#m3)

4) A noun: a very popular song, film or thing: «The song was a big hit». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hit/#m4)

5) To reach: hit a target, hit 100. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hit/#m5)

6) Of something bad: to affect suddenly: «The storm hit the town». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hit/#m6)

7) In some dialects, hit is an old word used instead of it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hit/#m7)

### sense in the lessons

In behaviour lessons: hitting hurts and is never okay, even when angry — use words and walk away, tell an adult if someone hits you. In sport: hit the ball with a bat or racket; in cricket and baseball «a hit». In safety: a car can hit you, so stop, look and listen. In stories: the storm hit, the idea hit her. Phrases: hit the ball, hit back, a big hit, hit the target, hit it off (get on well), hit the road (leave), hit on an idea.

### examples

- It's never okay to hit someone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hit/#x1)
- She hit the ball over the fence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hit/#x2)
- The car almost hit the cyclist. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hit/#x3)
- The song was a big hit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hit/#x4)
- He hit his head on the shelf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hit/#x5)
- The arrow hit the target. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hit/#x6)
- We hit it off on the first day and became friends. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hit/#x7)
- The idea hit me in the middle of the night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hit/#x8)
- Hit's des like I tell you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hit/#x9)

### note

Irregular, the same in all forms: hit, hit, hit (yesterday I hit — not «hitted»). Double t: hitting. Telling an adult when someone hits you is the right thing, not telling tales.

### In the corpora

- ["Your room looks like a bomb's hit it" is an exaggeration meaning the room is very messy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/12-cars-chores-and-the-shopping-list/13/)
- [Scientists track big asteroids, and none of the known large ones will hit Earth in the next hundred years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/271-the-asteroid-the-day-the-dinosaurs-died/13/)
- [The Rat's stick hits something hollow.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/36-willows-ch3-part4-the-door-scraper/10/)
- ["Use your words" means stop hitting, screaming or whining and say what you want.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/14-family-and-behaviour/23/)
- ["Surgical strike" means a bombing that is claimed to hit only its target, though it often hits more.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/26-war-and-the-military/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hit» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hit/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.