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Synonyms for hit
Synonyms for hit: strike, striking and reach. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for hit
Interchangeable with hit, one per sense
Audited under hit's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one hit carries in that sense.
- strikenoun, in the sense "a conspicuous success"
- strikingnoun, in the sense "the act of contacting one thing with another"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name hit as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- reachreach is a verb in the sense "reach a point in time, or a certain state or level"
Two directions, one standard: two audited under hit and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
a conspicuous success
That song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career.
The true synonym
strike
Same sentence, swapped: That song was his first strike and marked the beginning of his career.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for hit in the sentence quoted.
- collision
- pass
- mark
the act of contacting one thing with another
The hit of the hammer left a deep dent.
The true synonym
striking
Same sentence, swapped: The striking of the hammer left a deep dent.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- bang
- collision
- catch
Where hit turns up in the game
hit is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where hit is the trap
- shutverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is close, in the sense "move so that an opening or passage is obstructed", so hit is there to be ruled out.
Play hit
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so hit reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other actions words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. hit carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.