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# hitting

«hitting» in Mova's school dictionary: **touching something hard and fast, often with your hand or…** — 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 (present participle of hit: hit, hits, hit, hitting); noun (hitting, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Hitting means touching something hard and fast, often with your hand or an object. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hitting/#m1)

2) Hitting a ball means striking it with a bat, racket or hand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hitting/#m2)

3) Hitting can mean reaching something: hitting a target, hitting 100. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hitting/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In behaviour and safety lessons: hitting other people is never OK; use words, walk away or tell an adult. In sport: hitting the ball in tennis, baseball, cricket. In science: forces happen when objects hit each other. Phrases: stop hitting, hitting it off (getting on well), hitting the books (studying hard).

### examples

- Stop hitting your brother! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hitting/#x1)
- She is good at hitting the ball. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hitting/#x2)
- The rain was hitting the window. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hitting/#x3)
- Hitting is not allowed at school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hitting/#x4)
- The car is hitting the brakes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hitting/#x5)
- They are hitting it off already. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hitting/#x6)
- The price is hitting new highs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hitting/#x7)
- He kept hitting the target in archery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hitting/#x8)

### note

Double t: hitting. «Hit» stays the same in present, past and past participle (hit, hit, hit). In maths word problems, «hitting 100» means reaching 100.

### In the corpora

- ["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/)
- [Tucking your chin to your chest helps keep your head from hitting the ground.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/2-balance-and-falling-well/15/)
- [Throwing things or hitting out in anger in sport can seriously injure someone.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/52-friends-teams-and-fair-play/20/)
- [Hitting, kicking or grabbing never solves a disagreement fairly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/54-solving-disagreements-calmly/9/)
- [Hitting back can get you hurt and can make the bullying worse.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/55-bullying/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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