Hit
Hit noun - A hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument.
Usage example: the quarterback can't take too many more hits like that and escape permanent injury
Sidewinder and hit are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sidewinder" instead a noun "Hit".
Nearby Word: hitting
Sidewinder
Sidewinder noun - Small pale-colored desert rattlesnake of southwestern United States; body moves in an s-shaped curve.
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Synonyms for Sidewinder
Hit and sidewinder are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hit" instead a noun "Sidewinder".
Nearby Word: sidewind
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Both words in one sentence
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Coming In Hot: The Mother of Invention and its crash landing into Sidewinder in Episode 19 following being hit by its own missiles and losing Artificial Gravity courtesy of York.
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Bullet Time: The explosion of one of the Zeroes when hit by a Sidewinder missile from an F-14 is slowed down for several moments.
Source: Film / The Final Countdown - The AIM-4's seeker had a wider field of view than the Sidewinder's - but unfortunately it was too wide; the Falcon could lock on to targets that it couldn't maneuver to hit and lacked a proximity fuse, meaning that it required a direct contact hit of an enemy aircraft.
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Sidewinder and Hit. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/hit/sidewinder
Hit & Sidewinder. N.p., 2016. Web. 14 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/hit/sidewinder>.
Sidewinder or Hit. 2016. Accessed August 14, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/hit/sidewinder.
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