strike : Idioms & Phrases

Awe"-struck` adjective

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1. Struck with awe. Milton.

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• noun the initial use of nuclear weapons to attack a country that also has nuclear weapons; considered feasible only when the attacker can destroy the other country's ability to retaliate
  
  • the Pakistani president promised no first strike against India

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• (Baseball), a strike by the batsman when any part of his person is outside of the lines of his position.

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• adjective satellite stricken with horror
  horrified; horror-stricken.
  

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Hor"ror-struck` adjective

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1. Horror-stricken; horrified. M. Arnold.

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• noun a voluntary fast undertaken as a means of protest
  

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• adjective satellite thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation
  panicked; panicky; terrified; frightened; panic-stricken.
  
  • became panicky as the snow deepened
  • felt panicked before each exam
  • trying to keep back the panic-stricken crowd
  • the terrified horse bolted

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Pan"ic-strick`en, Pan"ic-struck` adjective (Also<

• Panic-stricken
• Panic-struck

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1. Struck with a panic, or sudden fear. Burke.

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• noun a surprise attack that is launched in order to prevent the enemy from doing it to you
  

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• noun a strike that is carried out in order to deter expected aggression by hostile forces
  preventive attack.
  

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• noun a strike in which workers refuse to leave the workplace until a settlement is reached
  sit-down.
  

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• adjective satellite infatuated with or enthralled by the theater especially the desire to act
  

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Stage"-struck` adjective

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1. Fascinated by the stage; seized by a passionate desire to become an actor.

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• verb affect adversely
  
  • The court ruling struck a blow at the old segregation laws

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• verb create an emotional response
  
  • The music struck a chord with the listeners
• verb refer to or be relevant or familiar to
  strike a note; hit home; strike a chord.
  
  • I hope this message hits home!
• verb evoke a reaction, response, or emotion
  touch a chord.
  
  • this writer strikes a chord with young women
  • The storyteller touched a chord

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• verb refer to or be relevant or familiar to
  strike a note; hit home; strike a chord.
  
  • I hope this message hits home!

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• verb make a counterattack and return like for like, especially evil for evil
  retaliate.
  
  • The Empire strikes back
  • The Giants struck back and won the opener
  • The Israeli army retaliated for the Hamas bombing

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• (Carp.), a plane shorter than a jointer, used for fitting a short joint. Moxon.

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• verb declare null and void; make ineffective
  cancel.
  
  • Cancel the election results
  • strike down a law
• verb cause to die, especially suddenly
  
  • The disease struck down many young men in the village
• verb cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow
  drop; fell; cut down.
  
  • strike down a tree
  • Lightning struck down the hikers

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• verb render speechless, as by surprising or shocking
  
  • we were struck dumb by the candidate's announcement

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• verb deliver a sharp blow or push :"He knocked the glass clear across the room"
  knock.
  

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• verb refer to or be relevant or familiar to
  strike a note; hit home; strike a chord.
  
  • I hope this message hits home!

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• noun someone who leads a strike
  

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• a handful that may be hackled at once. Obs. or Prov. Eng. Chaucer.

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• . (Sugar Making) (a) The act of emptying the teache, or last boiler, in which the cane juice is exposed to heat, into the coolers . (b) The quantity of the sirup thus emptied at once.

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• verb remove from a list
  mark; cross out; strike off; cross off.
  
  • Cross the name of the dead person off the list

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• verb remove from a list
  mark; cross out; strike off; cross off.
  
  • Cross the name of the dead person off the list
• verb put out or be put out by a strikeout
  
  • Oral struck out three batters to close the inning
• verb be unsuccessful in an endeavor
  
  • The candidate struck out with his health care plan
• verb make a motion as with one's fist or foot towards an object or away from one's body
  
• verb cause to get out
  retire.
  
  • The pitcher retired three batters
  • the runner was put out at third base
• verb set out on a course of action
  
  • He struck out on his own

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• noun money paid to strikers from union funds
  

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• verb start playing
  sound off.
  
  • The musicians struck up a tune
• verb begin
  
  • strike up a conversation
  • strike up a friendship

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• noun (baseball) the area over home plate between a batter's knees and shoulders through which a pitch must pass in order to be called a strike
  

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• noun a geological fault in which one of the adjacent surfaces appears to have moved horizontally
  

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Sun"-struck` adjective

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1. (Med.) Overcome by, or affected with, sunstroke; as, sun-struck soldiers.

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• noun an attack (usually without prior warning) intended to deal only with a specific target
  

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• noun a strike in support of other workers who are on strike; a strike not resulting from direct grievances against the workers' employer
  sympathetic strike.
  

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• noun a strike in support of other workers who are on strike; a strike not resulting from direct grievances against the workers' employer
  sympathetic strike.
  

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• noun a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball
  strike.
  
  • he finished with three strikes in the tenth frame

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Ten"-strike` noun

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1. (Tenpins) A knocking down of all ten pins at one delivery of the ball also, strike. U. S.
2. Any quick, decisive stroke or act. Colloq. U.S.

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• adjective satellite struck or filled with terror
  terror-stricken.
  

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• to find out the difference between the debit and credit sides of an account.

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• to reach or ratify an agreement. "A bargain was struck." Macaulay.

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• (Law), to constitute a special jury ordered by a court, by each party striking out a certain number of names from a prepared list of jurors, so as to reduce it to the number of persons required by law. Burrill.

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• . (a) (Mining) To find a vein of ore. (b) Fig.: To find a way to fortune. Colloq.

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• to balance it.

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• to take an attitude for mere effect.

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• . See under Attitude, and Balance.

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• to aim a blow at.

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• to take down the tents or huts of a camp.

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• to confound; to astonish; to render silent by astonishment; or, it may be, to deprive of the power of speech.

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• to start suddenly on a course for.

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• to make a contract, or to become surety for another's debt or good behavior.

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• . (a) To shake hands with . Halliwell. (b) To make a compact or agreement with; to agree with.

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• to give a blow which reaches its object, to strike with effect.

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• . (a) To enter suddenly . (b) To disappear from the surface, with internal effects, as an eruptive disease . (c) To come in suddenly; to interpose; to interrupt . "I proposed the embassy of Constantinople for Mr. Henshaw, but my Lord Winchelsea struck in." Evelyn. (d) To join in after another has begun,as in singing.

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• to conform to; to suit itself to; to side with, to join with at once. "To assert this is to strike in with the known enemies of God's grace." South.

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• . (a) To erase from an account; to deduct; as, to strike off the interest of a debt . (b) (Print.) To impress; to print; as, to strike off a thousand copies of a book . = to run off? [copies] (c) To separate by a blow or any sudden action; as, to strike off what is superfluous or corrupt.

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• to find petroleum when boring for it; figuratively, to make a lucky hit financially. Slang, U.S.

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• to shake hands with one and wish good luck. Obs. Beau. & Fl.

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• . (a) To produce by collision; to force out, as, to strike out sparks with steel. (b) To blot out; to efface; to erase . "To methodize is as necessary as to strike out." Pope. (c) To form by a quick effort; to devise; to invent; to contrive, as, to strike out a new plan of finance. (d) (Baseball) To cause a player to strike out; said of the pitcher . See To strike out, under Strike, v. i.
• . (a) To start; to wander; to make a sudden excursion; as, to strike out into an irregular course of life . (b) To strike with full force . (c) (Baseball) To be put out for not hitting the ball during one's turn at the bat.

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• to send forth roots; to become fixed in the earth, etc., by a root; hence, in general, to become planted, fixed, or established; to increase and spread; as, an opinion takes root. "The bended twigs take root." Milton.

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• (Naut.), to lower the sails suddenly, as in saluting, or in sudden gusts of wind; hence, to acknowledge inferiority; to abate pretension.

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• to act in correspondence, or alike. Obs. Fuller.

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• . (a) To cause to sound; to begin to beat . "Strike up the drums." Shak. (b) To begin to sing or play; as, to strike up a tune. (c) To raise (as sheet metal), in making diahes, pans, etc., by blows or pressure in a die.
• to commence to play as a musician; to begin to sound, as an instrument. "Whilst any trump did sound, or drum struck up." Shak.

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• to quit work; to go on a strike.

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• noun a strike undertaken by workers without approval from the officials of their union
  

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• adjective satellite affected by or overcome with wonder
  

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