All hit-and-run synonyms

noun hit-and-run

• attack — To attack a person or place means to try to hurt or damage them using physical violence.
• murderer — a person who commits murder.
• criminal — A criminal is a person who regularly commits crimes.
• soldier — a person who serves in an army; a person engaged in military service.
• assassin — An assassin is a person who assassinates someone.
• perpetrator — a person who perpetrates, or commits, an illegal, criminal, or evil act: The perpetrators of this heinous crime must be found and punished to the fullest extent of the law.
• capture — If you capture someone or something, you catch them, especially in a war.
• break-in — an illegal entry into a home, car, office, etc.
• onslaught — an onset, assault, or attack, especially a vigorous one.
• sortie — a rapid movement of troops from a besieged place to attack the besiegers.
• sweep — to move or remove (dust, dirt, etc.) with or as if with a broom, brush, or the like.
• arrest — If the police arrest you, they take charge of you and take you to a police station, because they believe you may have committed a crime.
• assault — An assault by an army is a strong attack made on an area held by the enemy.
• invasion — an act or instance of invading or entering as an enemy, especially by an army.
• incursion — a hostile entrance into or invasion of a place or territory, especially a sudden one; raid: The bandits made brief incursions on the village.
• homicide — the killing of one human being by another.
• slaughter — Frank, 1908–2001, U.S. novelist and physician.
• killer — a person or thing that kills.
• butcher — A butcher is a shopkeeper who cuts up and sells meat. Some butchers also kill animals for meat and make foods such as sausages and meat pies.
• slayer — to kill by violence.
• cutthroat — a person who cuts throats; murderer
• non-enforceable — to put or keep in force; compel obedience to: to enforce a rule; Traffic laws will be strictly enforced.
• roundup — the driving together of cattle, horses, etc., for inspection, branding, shipping to market, or the like, as in the western U.S.
• pull — pull media
• descent — A descent is a movement from a higher to a lower level or position.
• inroad — a damaging or serious encroachment: inroads on our savings.
• bust — a raid, search, or arrest by the police
• onset — a beginning or start: the onset of winter.
• foray — a quick raid, usually for the purpose of taking plunder: Vikings made a foray on the port.
• irruption — a breaking or bursting in; a violent incursion or invasion.
• reconnaissance — the act of reconnoitering.
• sally — a sortie of troops from a besieged place upon an enemy.
• murderess — a woman who commits murder.
• triggerman — a gangster who specializes in gunning people down.
• massacre — the unnecessary, indiscriminate killing of a large number of human beings or animals, as in barbarous warfare or persecution or for revenge or plunder.
• manslayer — a person who kills another human being.