Definition of strike

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Strike (v. t.) To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument or missile..

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Beat :: Beat (v. t.) To strike repeatedly; to lay repeated blows upon; as, to beat one's breast; to beat iron so as to shape it; to beat grain, in order to force out the seeds; to beat eggs and sugar; to beat a drum..
Strike :: Strike (v. i.) To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; as, the ship struck in the night..
Flop :: Flop (v. i.) To strike about with something broad abd flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise and fall; as, the brim of a hat flops..
Bolt :: Bolt (v. i.) To strike or fall suddenly like a bolt.
Butt :: Butt (v. i.) To thrust the head forward; to strike by thrusting the head forward, as an ox or a ram. [See Butt, n.].
Batten :: Batten (v. t.) The movable bar of a loom, which strikes home or closes the threads of a woof..
Kick :: Kick (v. i.) To thrust out the foot or feet with violence; to strike out with the foot or feet, as in defense or in bad temper; esp., to strike backward, as a horse does, or to have a habit of doing so. Hence, figuratively: To show ugly resistance, opposition, or hostility; to spurn..
Pose :: Pose (v. i.) To assume and maintain a studied attitude, with studied arrangement of drapery; to strike an attitude; to attitudinize; figuratively, to assume or affect a certain character; as, she poses as a prude..
Hemautography :: Hemautography (n.) The obtaining of a curve similar to a pulse curve or sphygmogram by allowing the blood from a divided artery to strike against a piece of paper.
Astonish :: Astonish (v. t.) To strike with sudden fear, terror, or wonder; to amaze; to surprise greatly, as with something unaccountable; to confound with some sudden emotion or passion..
Strike :: Strike (n.) An instrument with a straight edge for leveling a measure of grain, salt, and the like, scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle..
Wick :: Wick (v. i.) To strike a stone in an oblique direction.
Pull :: Pull (v. t.) To strike the ball in a particular manner. See Pull, n., 8..
Ten-strike :: Ten-strike (n.) A knocking down of all ten pins at one delivery of the ball.
Strike :: Strike (v. t.) To take forcibly or fraudulently; as, to strike money..
Strike :: Strike (v. i.) To make an attack; to aim a blow.
Clout :: Clout (n.) To give a blow to; to strike.
Cuff :: Cuff (v. t.) To strike; esp., to smite with the palm or flat of the hand; to slap..
Skelp :: Skelp (v. t.) To strike; to slap.
Overstrike :: Overstrike (v. t.) To strike beyond.
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