Hit and Probe

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

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Probe and hit are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Probe" instead a verb "Hit".

Nearby Word: hitting

Probe verb - To search through or into.

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Hit and probe are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hit" instead a verb "Probe".

Nearby Words: probing, probed

old	old hit	old probe
initial	initial hit	initial probe
small	small hit	small probe
actual	actual hit	actual probe
Other adjectives: real, successful, early, last, latest, failed, attempted.

Stargate SG-1's 10th season featured an episode where Vala lost her memory after being hooked up to a device meant to probe her mind which was then hit by a zat gun.

Source: Lightning Can Do Anything
The Stardust-NExT mission, a comet-chasing probe that flew through the tail of comet Wild 2 and brought back samples to Earth before being sent on another mission to revisit and reanalyze comet Tempel 1, which had been hit by a kinetic slug several years earlier by another probe, Deep Impact.

Source: Useful Notes / NASA
A serious advantage for the Reaperbots against Crowned Death is the fact that they are not alive and therefore the One-Hit Kill gaze of his Lesser Aspect can't do much more than disable them for a few seconds, if its effect on Mercury's automated deep sea probe is any indication.

Source: Fan Fic / Dungeon Keeper Ami

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