Strike

/stɹaɪk/ · verb

Meaning

(transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive, sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
2. To have a sharp or sudden physical effect, as of a blow.
3. (transitive) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
4. To infest the flesh of a living vertebrate.
5. To have a sharp or severe effect on a more abstract level.
6. To touch; to act by appulse.
7. (transitive, fishing) To hook (a fish) by a quick turn of the wrist.
8. (transitive) To take down, especially in the following contexts.

Example Sentences

Please strike the last sentence.

A tree strikes its roots deep.

The blowflies come in March, but if a man shears then the flies don’t bother much. The flies strike young lambs, but then the lambing could be regulated.

Let us conſider the red and white colours in Porphyre: Hinder light, but from ſtriking on it, and its Colours vaniſh[…].

Of course, almost any fool could strike a fish if it lay quiet in very shallow water.

They struck off along the river.

In February, 1883, Mr. Hosie again left Chʻung-chʻing, and proceeded north-west to Chʻêng-tu, the capital of the province of Ssŭ-chʻuan, by way of the brine and petroleum wells of Tzŭ-liu-ching....In June, 1884, Mr. Hosie again left Chʻung-chʻing, and form Ho Chou, a three days' journey to the north of that city, he struck westward through a beautifully cultivated and fertile country to Chia-ting Fu, on the right bank of the Min at its junction with the Tʻung River.

I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.

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Word Forms

• strikes
• striking
• struck
• striked
• strook
• stroke
• strake
• stricken
• strucken

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