Definition of strike

"strike" in the noun sense

1. strike, work stoppage

a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions

"the strike lasted more than a month before it was settled"

2. strike

an attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or destroy an objective

"the strike was scheduled to begin at dawn"

3. rap, strike, tap

a gentle blow

4. strike, ten-strike

a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball

"he finished with three strikes in the tenth frame"

5. strike

baseball) a pitch that the batter swings at and misses, or that the batter hits into foul territory, or that the batter does not swing at but the umpire judges to be in the area over home plate and between the batter's knees and shoulders

"this pitcher throws more strikes than balls"

6. hit, smash, smasher, strike, bang

a conspicuous success

"that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career"

"that new Broadway show is a real smasher"

"the party went with a bang"

"strike" in the verb sense

1. strike

deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon

"The teacher struck the child"

"the opponent refused to strike"

"The boxer struck the attacker dead"

2. affect, impress, move, strike

have an emotional or cognitive impact upon

"This child impressed me as unusually mature"

"This behavior struck me as odd"

"he was dumb-struck by the news"

"her comments struck a sour note"

3. hit, strike, impinge on, run into, collide with

hit against come into sudden contact with

"The car hit a tree"

"He struck the table with his elbow"

4. strike, hit

make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target

"The Germans struck Poland on Sept. 1, 1939"

"We must strike the enemy's oil fields"

"in the fifth inning, the Giants struck, sending three runners home to win the game 5 to 2"

5. strike

indicate (a certain time) by striking

"The clock struck midnight"

"Just when I entered, the clock struck"

6. hit, strike

affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely

"We were hit by really bad weather"

"He was stricken with cancer when he was still a teenager"

"The earthquake struck at midnight"

7. strike, walk out

stop work in order to press demands

"The auto workers are striking for higher wages"

"The employees walked out when their demand for better benefits was not met"

8. fall, shine, strike

touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly

"Light fell on her face"

"The sun shone on the fields"

"The light struck the golden necklace"

"A strange sound struck my ears"

9. come to, strike

attain

"The horse finally struck a pace"

10. strike, hit

produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments

"The pianist strikes a middle C"

"strike `z' on the keyboard"

11. strike

cause to form (an electric arc) between electrodes of an arc lamp

"strike an arc"

12. fall upon, strike, come upon, light upon, chance upon, come across, chance on, happen upon, attain, discover

find unexpectedly

"the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb"

"she struck a goldmine"

"The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake"

13. strike

produce by ignition or a blow

"strike fire from the flintstone"

"strike a match"

14. strike, scratch, expunge, excise

remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line

"Please strike this remark from the record"

"scratch that remark"

15. hit, strike, come to

cause to experience suddenly

"Panic struck me"

"An interesting idea hit her"

"A thought came to me"

"The thought struck terror in our minds"

"They were struck with fear"

16. hit, strike

drive something violently into a location

"he hit his fist on the table"

"she struck her head on the low ceiling"

17. assume, take, strike, take up

occupy or take on

"He assumes the lotus position"

"She took her seat on the stage"

"We took our seats in the orchestra"

"She took up her position behind the tree"

"strike a pose"

18. strike

disassemble a temporary structure, such as a tent or a theatrical set

"after the show, we'll have to strike the set and pack up"

19. mint, coin, strike

form by stamping, punching, or printing

"strike coins"

"strike a medal"

20. strickle, strike

smooth with a strickle

"strickle the grain in the measure"

21. strike

pierce with force

"The bullet struck her thigh"

"The icy wind struck through our coats"

22. strike

arrive at after reckoning, deliberating, and weighing

"strike a balance"

"strike a bargain"

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Quotations for strike

Strike while the iron is hot. [ Proverb ]

Strike the iron whilst it is hot. [ Rabelais ]

O how beautiful is morning!
How the sunbeams strike the daisies
And the kingcups fill the meadow
Like a golden-shielded army
Marching to the uplands fair. [ D. M. Mulock ]

Despair doth strike as deep a furrow
In the brain as mischief or remorse. [ Barry Cornwall ]

When you are anvil, hold you still,
When you are hammer, strike your fill. [ Proverb ]

Strike the dog dead! it's but a critic. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Give me a look, give me a face.
That makes simplicity a grace:
Robes loosely flowing, hair as free;
Such sweet neglect more taketh me
Than all the adulteries of art;
They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. [ Ben Jonson ]

It is easier to strike than defend well. [ Proverb ]

Strike, brave boys, and take your turns. [ William Shakespeare ]

A single little word can strike him dead. [ Luther ]

For whom ill is fated, him it will strike. [ Gaelic Proverb ]

The wreck of things will strike him unmoved. [ Horace ]

Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold
The arch enchanter's wand! itself a nothing!
But taking sorcery from the master hand.
To paralyze the Caesars, and to strike
The loud earth breathless! [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Men in rage strike those that wish them best. [ William Shakespeare ]

Bright as the sun her eyes the gazers strike,
And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. [ Pope ]

Speak, speak, let terror strike slaves mute.
Much danger makes great hearts most resolute. [ Marston ]

They know the time to go!
The fairy clocks strike their inaudible hour
In field and woodland, and each punctual flower
Bows at the signal an obedient head
And hastes to bed. [ Susan Coolidge ]

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. [ Pope ]

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. [ Pope ]

The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard,
Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice
Of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims
Tidings of good to Zion. [ Charles Lamb ]

If satire charms, strike faults, but spare the man. [ Young ]

These wickets of the soul are placed so high,
Because all sounds do highly move aloft;
And that they may not pierce too violently,
They are delay'd with turns and twinings oft.
For should the voice directly strike the brain,
It would astonish and confuse it much;
Therefore these plaits and folds the sound restrain,
That it the organ may more gently touch. [ Sir John Davies ]

I have this while with leaden thoughts been pressed;
But I shall, in a more continuate time,
Strike off this score of absence. [ William Shakespeare ]

An old warrior is never in haste to strike the blow. [ Metastasio ]

He that strikes my dog, would strike me if he durst. [ Proverb ]

When many strike on an anvil, they must observe order. [ Proverb ]

When a man is happy he does not hear the clock strike. [ German Proverb ]

When you organise a strike, it is war you organise;
But to organise our labour were the labour of the wise. [ Dr. Walter Smith ]

Art thou anvil, be patient; art thou hammer, strike hard. [ German Proverb ]

He's winding up the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike. [ William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II Sc.1 ]

It is good to strike the serpent's head with your enemy's hand. [ Proverb ]

No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed. [ Byron ]

Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking. [ Cromwell ]

You must strike in measure when there are many to strike on one anvil. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

When you are an anvil, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, but strike it till it is made hot. [ Sharp ]

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman. [ Beethoven ]

Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man. [ Kant ]

Men of wit. learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays. [ Swift ]

To express the most difficult matters clearly, and everything intelligibly, is to strike coins out of pure gold. [ Geibel ]

Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination. [ Dr. I. Watts ]

We can take up no scheme, however wild and impracticable, but it will strike off some flower or fruit from the tree of knowledge. [ Ward Beecher ]

When the tongue is the weapon, a man may strike where he cannot reach; and a word shall do execution both further and deeper than the mightiest blow. [ South ]

Even out of a cloudless heaven the flaming thunderbolt may strike; therefore in thy days of joy have a fear of the spiteful neighbourhood of misfortune. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

We never read without profit if with the pen or pencil in our hand we mark such ideas as strike us by their novelty, or correct those we already possess. [ Zimmermann ]

That policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance which, like Cromwell's, can make the iron hot by striking; and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it. [ Colton ]

The wild force of genius has often been fated by Nature to be finally overcome by quiet strength. The volcano sends up its red bolt with terrific force, as if it would strike the stars; but the calm, resistless hand of gravitation seizes it and brings it to the earth. [ Bayne ]

That great mystery of time, were there no other; the illimitable, silent never-resting thing called time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are and then are not - this is for ever very literally a miracle, a thing to strike us dumb; for we have no word to speak about it. [ Carlyle ]

Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear dulness to maturity, and to glory in the vigor and luxuriance of her chance productions. She scatters the seeds of genius to the winds, and though some may perish among the stony places of the world, and some may be choked by the thorns and brambles of early adversity, yet others will now and then strike root even in the clefts of the rock, struggle bravely up into sunshine, and spread over their sterile birthplace all the beauties of vegetation. [ Washington Irving ]

strike in Scrabble®

The word strike is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

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strike in Words With Friends™

The word strike is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 10

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Word Growth involving strike

Shorter words in strike

trike

Longer words containing strike

airstrike airstrikes

counterstrike counterstrikes

flystrike flystrikes

outstrike outstrikes

overstrike overstrikes

restrike restrikes

strikeboard strikeboards

strikebreaker strikebreakers

strikebreaking

strikeout strikeouts

strikeover strikeovers

striker nonstriker nonstrikers

striker strikers nonstrikers

strikes airstrikes

strikes counterstrikes

strikes flystrikes

strikes outstrikes

strikes overstrikes

strikes restrikes

strikes strikeslip

strikes tailstrikes

tailstrike tailstrikes

understrike