Hyphenation of hitting

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word hitting? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

hit-ting

Definitions of hitting:

1.	The act of contacting one thing with another Repeated hitting raised a large bruise After three misses she finally got a hit
2.	Cause to move by striking Hit a ball
3.	Hit against Come into sudden contact with The car hit a tree He struck the table with his elbow
4.	Deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument He hit her hard in the face
5.	Reach a destination, either real or abstract We hit Detroit by noon The water reached the doorstep We barely made it to the finish line I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts
6.	Affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely We were hit by really bad weather He was stricken with cancer when he was still a teenager The earthquake struck at midnight
7.	Hit with a missile from a weapon
8.	Encounter by chance I stumbled across a long-lost cousin last night in a restaurant
9.	Gain points in a game The home team scored many times He hit a home run He hit .300 in the past season
10.	Cause to experience suddenly Panic struck me An interesting idea hit her A thought came to me The thought struck terror in our minds They were struck with fear
11.	Make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target The Germans struck Poland on Sept. 1
12.	1939 We must strike the enemy's oil fields In the fifth inning
13.	The Giants struck
14.	Sending three runners home to win the game 5 to 2
15.	Kill intentionally and with premeditation The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered
16.	Drive something violently into a location He hit his fist on the table She struck her head on the low ceiling
17.	Reach a point in time, or a certain state or level The thermometer hit 100 degrees This car can reach a speed of 140 miles per hour
18.	Produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments, also metaphorically The pianist strikes a middle C Strike `z' on the keyboard Her comments struck a sour note
19.	Consume to excess Hit the bottle
20.	Hit the intended target or goal
21.	Pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to He tries to hit on women in bars

Synonyms of hitting:

noun	hit, striking, touch, touching

Last hyphenations of this language

hemiglossal principle baning holdover drab ambar Encyclical tea-planter NAUGHTY pictures fulgor Coumas Proudlove glaciated objectives stirred tullia hobnail imprison

Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.