Word

striking, n.
(strikings)

the act of contacting one thing with another
<noun.act> freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2

hit hitting striking

sample sentences

"repeated hitting raised a large bruise"
"after three misses she finally got a hit"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

hit hit hit hit hit

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

semantic pointers

hypernym

touch, touching

hyponym

contusion crash, smash bunt fly, fly ball grounder, ground ball, groundball, hopper header scorcher, screamer plunker, plunk

the physical coming together of two or more things
<noun.event> freq. cnt.: 5 freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 2

contact impinging striking

sample sentences

"contact with the pier scraped paint from the hull"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

semantic pointers

hypernym

occurrence, happening, occurrent, natural event

hyponym

collision, hit engagement, mesh, meshing, interlocking flick impact touch, touching