fail to win; "We lost the battle but we won the war"
suffer the loss of a person through death or removal; "She lost her husband in the war"; "The couple that wanted to adopt the child lost her when the biological parents claimed her"
allow to go out of sight; "The detective lost the man he was shadowing after he had to stop at a red light"
miss from one's possessions; lose sight of; "I've lost my glasses again!"
fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense; "She lost her purse when she left it unattended on her seat"
fail to get or obtain; "I lost the opportunity to spend a year abroad"
fail to make money in a business; make a loss or fail to profit; "I lost thousands of dollars on that bad investment!"; "The company turned a loss after the first year"
(baseball) a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball); "he came all the way around on Williams' hit"
a conspicuous success; "that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career"; "that new Broadway show is a real smasher"; "the party went with a bang"
the act of contacting one thing with another; "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally got a hit"
a connection made via the internet to another website; "WordNet gets many hits from users worldwide"
a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate; "it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit"
a dose of a narcotic drug
pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to; "He tries to hit on women in bars"
hit the intended target or goal
consume to excess; "hit the bottle"
affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely; "We were hit by really bad weather"; "He was stricken with cancer when he was still a teenager"; "The earthquake struck at midnight"
hit against; come into sudden contact with; "The car hit a tree"; "He struck the table with his elbow"
deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument; "He hit her hard in the face"
cause to move by striking; "hit a ball"
drive something violently into a location; "he hit his fist on the table"; "she struck her head on the low ceiling"
cause to experience suddenly; "Panic struck me"; "An interesting idea hit her"; "A thought came to me"; "The thought struck terror in our minds"; "They were struck with fear"
belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler; "golden age of imperial splendor"; "purple tyrant"; "regal attire"; "treated with royal acclaim"; "the royal carriage of a stag's head"
befitting or belonging to an emperor or empress; "imperial palace"
relating to or associated with an empire; "imperial colony"; "the imperial gallon was standardized legally throughout the British Empire"