We’ve selected these answers for “Hit hard” based on how often they’ve appeared alongside this exact clue or its close variations in popular crossword formats and publications.
Likely Answers:
- WHACK
- CLOUTED
- WALLOP
- SOCK
- RAM
- SLOG
- POUNDED
- HAMMER
- BANGED
- NAILED
- WHAM
- BELTED
- WALLOPED
- BASH
- BELT
- LAM
- THUMPED
- BATTERED
- SMITE
- SWAT
Synonyms and Definitions
WHACK
- Synonyms: belt, knock, rap, wallop, wham, whang, whop
CLOUTED
- Synonyms: clout
WALLOP
- Synonyms: impact, whack
SOCK
- Synonyms: air sock, air-sleeve, bash, bonk, bop, drogue, whap, wind cone, wind sleeve, wind sock, windsock
RAM
- Synonyms: aries, aries the ram, chock up, cram, crash, drive, force, jam, jampack, pound, ram down, random access memory, random memory, random-access memory, read/write memory, tup, wad
SLOG
- Synonyms: footslog, keep ones nose to the grindstone, keep ones shoulder to the wheel, pad, peg away, plod, plug away, slug, swig, tramp, trudge
POUNDED
- Synonyms: beat, impound, lumber, poke, pound off, pound up, ram, thump
HAMMER
- Synonyms: cock, forge, hammering, mallet, malleus, pounding, power hammer
BANGED
- Synonyms: bang, be intimate, bed, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, hump, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, slam, sleep together, sleep with, spang
NAILED
- Synonyms: ace, apprehend, arrest, blast, boom, breeze through, collar, complete, cop, nab, nail, nail down, pass with flying colors, peg, pick up, pinpoint, sail through, smash, sweep through
BELTED
- Synonyms: belt out
BASH
- Synonyms: brawl, do, sock
BELT
- Synonyms: belt ammunition, belted ammunition, swath
LAM
- Synonyms: break away, bunk, escape, flail, fly the coop, getaway, head for the hills, hightail it, run, run away, scarper, scat, take to the woods, thrash, thresh, turn tail
THUMPED
- Synonyms: thud
BATTERED
- Synonyms: baste, batter, beat-up, beaten-up, buffet, clobber, dinge, knock about
SMITE
- Synonyms: afflict