Hit
Hit verb - To deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner.
Usage example: a good carpenter hits a nail just two or three times to drive it in
Nearby Word: hitting
Slash
Slash verb - To strike repeatedly with something long and thin or flexible.
Usage example: wildly slashing the ground with his club and never once hitting the golf ball he was aiming at
How words are described
| good | good hit | good slash |
| low | low hit | low slash |
| normal | normal hit | normal slash |
| perfect | perfect hit | perfect slash |
| Other adjectives: initial, single, heavy, nasty, small, strong, powerful, actual, real, big, great, huge, bad, final, minor, accidental, additional, last, lucky. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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After one successful hit, it's possible for 9001 slash trails to appear, centered on where you hit them.
Source: Unnecessary Combat Roll -
Also complains about how Link often clumsily falls down after a hit, and can't slash a pot when it's near a wall (because his sword keeps hitting the wall instead).Brett: "Hero of Time", my ass.
Source: Podcast / Talkradar - Ludicrous Gibs: Instead of making a standard knife slash, the Hidden can deliver a powerful Pigsticker strike that kills in one hit, but leaves little for him to recover health off of afterwards.
Source: Videogame / The Hidden
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