hit
- {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun1 act of hitting sth/sbADJECTIVE▪ directVERB + 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 popularADJECTIVE▪ 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, songPREPOSITION▪ hit with▪{{Roman}}II.{{/Roman}}The series has been a big hit with children.
verb1 strikeADVERB▪ 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/sthADVERB▪ 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, ↑waveHit 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
Collocations dictionary. 2013.
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