<p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to deal a blow or stroke to.</li><li>to come against with an impact or collision, as a missile, a flying fragment, a falling body, or the like.</li><li>to reach with a missile, a weapon, a blow, or the like, as one throwing, shooting, or striking.</li><li>to succeed in striking.</li><li>to drive or propel by a stroke.</li><li>to have a marked effect or influence on; affect severely.</li><li>to assail effectively and sharply.</li><li>to request or demand of.</li><li>to reach or attain (a specified level or amount).</li><li>to be published in or released to; appear in.</li><li>to land on, arrive in, or go to.</li><li>to give (someone) another playing card, drink, portion, etc.</li><li>to come or light upon; meet with; find.</li><li>to agree with; suit exactly.</li><li>to solve or guess correctly; come upon the right answer or solution.</li><li>to succeed in representing or producing exactly.</li><li>to begin to travel on.</li><li>to kill; murder.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to strike with a missile, a weapon, or the like; deal a blow or blows.</li><li>to come into collision.</li><li>(of an internal-combustion engine) to ignite a mixture of air and fuel as intended.</li><li>to come or light (usually followed by upon or on).</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>an impact or collision, as of one thing against another.</li><li>a stroke that reaches an object; blow.</li><li>a stroke of satire, censure, etc.</li><li>base hit (Baseball).</li><li>a game won by a player after the opponent has thrown off one or more men from the board (Backgammon).</li><li>any winning game.</li><li>a successful stroke, performance, or production; success.</li><li>a dose of a narcotic drug (Slang).</li><li>(in information retrieval) an instance of successfully locating an item of data, as in a database or on the internet.</li><li>an instance of accessing a website.</li><li>a killing, murder, or assassination, especially one carried out by criminal prearrangements (Slang).</li></ul><p><strong>Verb Phrase</strong></p><ul><li>to deal a blow aimlessly.</li><li>to make a violent verbal attack.</li><li>to represent or describe precisely or aptly.</li><li>to imitate, especially in order to satirize.</li><li>to ask to borrow money from.</li><li>to inject a narcotic drug into a vein.</li><li>to make a sexual advance to.</li></ul>