"hitting" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hittings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1824, Pierce Egan, Boxiana; Or, Sketches of Ancient and Modern Pugilism, page 600",
          "text": "The right hand of Curtis was open too much; but he nevertheless had the best of the hitting in this round, till Inglis bored him down, out of the ropes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "The batter's hitting improved with practice."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A series of hits or blows directed at a person or object."
      ],
      "id": "en-hitting-en-noun-nsMeWrEd",
      "links": [
        [
          "hit",
          "hit"
        ],
        [
          "blow",
          "blow"
        ]
      ],
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        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhɪtɪŋ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪtɪŋ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hitting"
}

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "hit"
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      "glosses": [
        "present participle and gerund of hit"
      ],
      "id": "en-hitting-en-verb-Ac1cTPbf",
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          "hit#English"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhɪtɪŋ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪtɪŋ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hitting"
}

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    "English uncountable nouns",
    "English verb forms",
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    {
      "form": "hittings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1824, Pierce Egan, Boxiana; Or, Sketches of Ancient and Modern Pugilism, page 600",
          "text": "The right hand of Curtis was open too much; but he nevertheless had the best of the hitting in this round, till Inglis bored him down, out of the ropes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "The batter's hitting improved with practice."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A series of hits or blows directed at a person or object."
      ],
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        [
          "hit",
          "hit"
        ],
        [
          "blow",
          "blow"
        ]
      ],
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        "uncountable"
      ]
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhɪtɪŋ/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪtɪŋ"
    }
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  "word": "hitting"
}

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    "English uncountable nouns",
    "English verb forms",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      ],
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        "present participle and gerund of hit"
      ],
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          "hit#English"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhɪtɪŋ/"
    },
    {
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    }
  ],
  "word": "hitting"
}