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experience, information, biography, CV or curriculum vitae, US<br />

r‚sum‚: Your entire work history should be included in your<br />

application. 5 chronicle, annals, record, account: <strong>The</strong> history<br />

<strong>of</strong> Parliamentary debate can be traced through Hansard. 6<br />

ancient history, the past, yesterday, the (good old) days, days<br />

<strong>of</strong> yore, olden days, yesteryear, antiquity: What can history<br />

tell us about the future? 7 dead letter, yesterday's news, old<br />

hat: <strong>An</strong>y animosity I might have felt towards him is now<br />

history.<br />

hit v. 1 strike, cuff, smack, knock, whack, bash, bang, thump,<br />

thwack, punch, buffet, slap, swat, bludgeon, club, smite; spank,<br />

thrash, beat, pummel, batter, flog, scourge, birch, cane, lash,<br />

belabour, flagellate, whip, horsewhip, cudgel, Archaic<br />

fustigate; Colloq belt, wallop, clobber, clout, sock, clip,<br />

crown, bop, conk, paste, lambaste, zap: She hit him on the jaw<br />

and he went down. 2 strike, bat, swat, knock, drive, propel:<br />

He hit the ball over the heads <strong>of</strong> the fielders. 3 strike,<br />

collide or impact with, run or smash or crash into, bump or bang<br />

into: <strong>The</strong> car went <strong>of</strong>f the road and hit a tree. 4 affect,<br />

touch, stir, move, wound, hurt, strike or hit home, make or<br />

leave an impression or a mark on, (make an) impact (on): <strong>The</strong><br />

new taxes hit the wealthy more than the poor. 5 dawn on, enter<br />

one's mind, occur to, strike: It finally hit Graham that he had<br />

been insulted. 6 reach, attain, arrive at, gain, achieve:<br />

Those who have hit eighty know the meaning <strong>of</strong> old age. She hit<br />

the jackpot this week. 7 experience, encounter, meet (with): It<br />

was at that point that we hit a snag in the negotiations. 8<br />

Also, hit up. importune, beseech, petition, beg, implore,<br />

entreat, ask for: As usual, Guthrie hit me for a loan as soon<br />

as we met. 9 hit on or upon. a come or happen or chance or<br />

light on or upon, discover, find, uncover, unearth, stumble or<br />

blunder on or upon, arrive at: After years <strong>of</strong> experimentation,<br />

the Curies hit upon pitchblende as a source <strong>of</strong> radium. b devise,<br />

think <strong>of</strong> or up, invent, dream up, come up with, work out, see,<br />

perceive, detect, discern, find: I have hit upon a way to<br />

counteract the force <strong>of</strong> gravity.<br />

--n. 10 impact, collision; blow, punch, knock, strike, swat,<br />

shot, smack, bump, bang, Colloq whack, thwack, conk, bop, sock:<br />

<strong>The</strong> weakness <strong>of</strong> the hit caused only a slight dent in my car<br />

door. <strong>The</strong> boxer reeled after a hard hit to the midriff. 11<br />

success, triumph, coup, winner, sensation, Colloq smash (hit),

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