All hit upon synonyms

verb hit upon

• unfold — to bring out of a folded state; spread or open out: Unfold your arms.
• decipher — to determine the meaning of (something obscure or illegible)
• interpret — to give or provide the meaning of; explain; explicate; elucidate: to interpret the hidden meaning of a parable.
• work — Henry Clay, 1832–84, U.S. songwriter.
• untangle — to bring out of a tangled state; disentangle; unsnarl.
• attain — If you attain something, you gain it or achieve it, often after a lot of effort.
• come to light — to be revealed
• give away — to present voluntarily and without expecting compensation; bestow: to give a birthday present to someone.
• lay open — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
• tip one's hand — the act of tipping.
• catch on — If you catch on to something, you understand it, or realize that it is happening.
• see the light — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
• turn up — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
• meet with — to come upon; come into the presence of; encounter: I would meet him on the street at unexpected moments.
• come about — When you say how or when something came about, you say how or when it happened.
• come off — If something comes off, it is successful or effective.
• fall out — an act or instance of falling or dropping from a higher to a lower place or position.
• come to pass — to take place
• carry out — If you carry out a threat, task, or instruction, you do it or act according to it.
• work out — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
• play games — an amusement or pastime: children's games.
• dig up — to break up, turn over, or remove earth, sand, etc., as with a shovel, spade, bulldozer, or claw; make an excavation.
• hit on — to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
• nose out — the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
• smoke out — the visible vapor and gases given off by a burning or smoldering substance, especially the gray, brown, or blackish mixture of gases and suspended carbon particles resulting from the combustion of wood, peat, coal, or other organic matter.
• track down — a structure consisting of a pair of parallel lines of rails with their crossties, on which a railroad train, trolley, or the like runs.
• fall in with — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
• meet up with — see socially
• run across — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
• bring to light — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
• come up with — If you come up with a plan or idea, you think of it and suggest it.
• ferret out — a domesticated, usually red-eyed, and albinic variety of the polecat, used in Europe for driving rabbits and rats from their burrows.
• make out — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
• arrive at — to reach by traveling
• scare up — to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.
• get at — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
• pick up on — to choose or select from among a group: to pick a contestant from the audience.
• pin down — a small, slender, often pointed piece of wood, metal, etc., used to fasten, support, or attach things.
• zero in on — the figure or symbol 0, which in the Arabic notation for numbers stands for the absence of quantity; cipher.
• lay one's hands on — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
• find out — to come upon by chance; meet with: He found a nickel in the street.
• pan out — a broad, shallow container of metal, usually having sides flaring outward toward the top, used in various forms for frying, baking, washing, etc.
• get right — be correct about
• put two and two together — a cardinal number, 1 plus 1.
• think out — to have a conscious mind, to some extent of reasoning, remembering experiences, making rational decisions, etc.
• unriddle — to solve (a riddle, mystery, etc.).
• open up — not closed or barred at the time, as a doorway by a door, a window by a sash, or a gateway by a gate: to leave the windows open at night.
• stumble across — to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
• learn — to acquire knowledge of or skill in by study, instruction, or experience: to learn French; to learn to ski.