hitting

1. The act of contacting one thing with another (synset 100126449)
   "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally got a hit"
   is a type of: touch, touching - the act of putting two things together with no space between them
   subtypes:

   • contusion - the action of bruising
   • crash, smash - the act of colliding with something
   • bunt - (baseball) the act of hitting a baseball lightly without swinging the bat
   • fly, fly ball - (baseball) a hit that flies up in the air
   • ground ball, groundball, grounder, hopper - (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground
   • header - (soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head
   • scorcher, screamer - a very hard hit ball
   • plunk, plunker - (baseball) hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly
   same as: hit, striking

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