Hit
Rake
Rake verb - To look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something.
Usage example: the pathetic sight of hungry children raking the garbage for food
Hit and rake are semantically related in strike with paws topic. Sometimes you can use "Hit" instead a verb "Rake".
How words are described
| old | old hit | old rake |
| actual | actual hit | actual rake |
| famous | famous hit | famous rake |
| new | new hit | new rake |
| Other adjectives: last. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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Inverted in the Strong Bad Email "hremail3184"; when Strong Bad hits Homestar with a rake, a shovel and a garden weasel, it's Homestar who shouts "Rake", "Shovel" and "Weasel" upon being hit.
Source: Calling Your Attacks -
Subverted in The Goonies; after Stephanie and Andrea step on the rake it doesn't hit them in the face but pops up with a fish head on the other end.
Source: Rake Take -
Getting to the step-on-the-rake-get-hit-in-the-face gag, he then proceeds to show Black Humor when he stomps on the rake, impaling his foot.
Source: Black Comedy
Cite this Source
Rake and Hit. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/hit/rake
Hit & Rake. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/hit/rake>.
Rake or Hit. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/hit/rake.
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