striking
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(noun) a act of hitting one thing with another; "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally got a hit" |
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Synonyms: hit, hitting |
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Related Words: bunt, collision, crash, fly, fly ball, ground ball, grounder, header, line drive, liner, plunk, plunker, smash, touch, touching |
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(satellite adjective) sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect; "a dramatic sunset"; "a dramatic pause"; "a spectacular display of northern lights"; "it was a spectacular play"; "his striking good looks always created a sensation" |
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Synonyms: dramatic, spectacular |
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(noun) the physical coming together of two or more things; "contact with the pier scraped paint from the hull" |
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Synonyms: contact, impinging |
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Related Words: collision, engagement, flick, happening, hit, impact, interlocking, mesh, meshing, natural event, occurrence, touch, touching |
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(satellite adjective) having a quality that thrusts itself into attention; "an outstanding fact of our time is that nations poisoned by anti_semitism proved less fortunate in regard to their own freedom"; "a new theory is the most prominent feature of the book"; "salient traits"; "a spectacular rise in prices"; "a striking thing about Picadilly Circus is the statue of Eros in the center"; "a striking resemblance between parent and child" |
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Synonyms: outstanding, prominent, salient, spectacular |
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