Hit and Strike at

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

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

Nearby Word: hitting

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Hit and strike at are semantically related. You can use "Hit" instead a verb "Strike at".

In the Persona games from Persona 3 onward, whenever a Persona-user is about to get a critical hit or strike at an elemental weakness of their enemies, it activates a Super Move Portrait Attack focusing on the Persona-user's eyes which plays this trope very straight.

Source: Death Glare
Southern Brazil was hit with a major power outage in March 1999, caused when a lightning strike at a power substation started a chain reaction.

Source: Big Blackout
Kagari Izuriha from the anime Black★Rock Shooter is in a wheelchair and homebound after being hit by a car when she was a kid, and is a possessive girl who would strike at anyone who got too close to her friend Yomi.

Source: Evil Cripple

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