Encounter and Hit

Encounter

Encounter verb - To come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-face.
Usage example: quite unexpectedly encountered our next-door neighbor while vacationing in Europe

Hit and encounter are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Hit" instead the word "Encounter" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: encountered, encountering

Hit

Hit verb - To deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner.

Encounter and hit are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Encounter" instead the word "Hit" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Word: hitting

How words are described

high high encounter high hit
normal normal encounter normal hit
direct direct encounter direct hit
original original encounter original hit
Other adjectives: initial, proper, single, nasty, actual, real, bad, new, early, major, near, minor, fatal, unexpected, accidental, next, last, recent, previous.

Common collocations

character encounter character hit character
woman encounter woman hit woman
people encounter people hit people
men encounter men hit men
Other words: someone, number, time, characters, level, boss, ship, planet, anyone, enemy, times, enemies.

Both words in one sentence

  • One-Hit-Point Wonder Eryi's Action: Like many other platformers, you die the moment you hit a chicken, jumping flower, spike, flame, or any other of the numerous hazards you encounter in the game.
  • Video Game / Oddworld aka: Oddworld Strangers Wrath Subverted in a way with Sligs - they have such bad aim that it always takes them three shots to hit and kill Abe, so that basically translates to three hit points per Slig encounter.
  • Video Game / The Adventures of Lomax The zombies you encounter in the second world are blue and do the Zombie Gait at first, but start running angrily when hit once, and turn into normal lemmings when you hit them the second time.
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