Definition of struck

"struck" 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"

"struck" in the adjective sense

1. smitten, stricken, struck

used in combination) affected by something overwhelming

"conscience-smitten"

"awe-struck"

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Quotations for struck

The fire in the flint
Shows not till it be struck. [ William Shakespeare ]

There are more threatened than struck. [ Proverb ]

The clock of his age had struck fifty-eight. [ Cellini ]

For my own pleasure, as the man struck his wife. [ Proverb ]

The fire in the flint shows not till it's struck. [ Proverb ]

Wit, now and then, struck smartly, shows a spark. [ Cowper ]

Struck blind with beauty! shot with a woman's smile. [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

An infant when it gazes on the light,
A child the moment when it drains the breast,
A devotee when soars the Host in sight,
An Arab with a stranger for a guest,
A sailor when the prize has struck in fight,
A miser filling his most hoarded chest,
Feel rapture; but not such true joy are reaping
As they who watch over what they love while sleeping. [ Byron ]

He that pries into the clouds may be struck with a thunderbolt. [ Proverb ]

To be struck with His power, it is only necessary to open our eyes. [ Burke ]

The true poetic soul needs but to be struck, and the sounds it yields will be music. [ Carlyle ]

In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Mystic, deep as the world's centre, are the roots a man has struck into his native soil; no tree that grows is rooted so. [ Carlyle ]

It has always struck me that there is a far greater distinction between man and man than between many men and most other animals. [ Basil Hall ]

O the things unseen, untold, undreamt of, which like shadows pass hourly over that mysterious world, a mind to ruin struck by grief! [ Mrs. Hemans ]

Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtues of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes or envy struck dumb. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck only at one end of a room, it will soon fall to the floor. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends. [ Johnson ]

The stroke that comes transmitted through a whole galaxy of elastic balls, is it less a stroke than if the last ball only had been struck and sent flying? [ Carlyle ]

Though with their high wrongs I am struck to the quick, yet, with my nobler reason, against my fury do I take part; the rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance. [ William Shakespeare ]

Glow-worms are the image of women: when they are in the dark, one is struck with their brilliancy; as soon as they appear in the broad light of the world, one sees them in their true colors, with all their defects. [ Mme. Necker ]

Earth has scarcely an acre that does not remind us of actions that have long preceded our own, and its clustering tombstones loom up like reefs of the eternal shore, to show us where so many human barks have struck and gone down. [ Chapin ]

The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God. Make all men equal today, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal tomorrow. [ Anthony Trollope ]

The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they disengage us from ourselves, they constrain us to the acquaintance of others; and they show us the web of experience, but with a singular change - that monstrous, consuming ego of ours being, nonce, struck out. [ Robert Louis Stevenson ]

I cannot look around me without being struck with the analogy observable in the works of God. I find the Bible written in the style of His other books of Creation and Providence. The pen seems in the same hand. I see it, indeed, write at times my steriously in each of these books: thus I know that mystery in the works of God is only another name for my ignorance. The moment, therefore, that I become humble, all becomes right. [ Richard Cecil ]

There are chords in the human heart - strange varying strings - which are only struck by accident; which will remain mute and senseless to appeals the most passionate and earnest, and respond at last to the slightest casual touch. In the most insensible or childish minds there is some train of reflection which art can seldom lead or skill assist, but which will reveal itself, as great truths have done, by chance, and when the discoverer has the plainest and simplest end in view. [ Dickens ]

Throughout the pages of history we are struck with the fact that our remarkable men possessed mothers of uncommon talents for good or bad, and great energy of character; it would almost seem from this circumstance, that the impress of the mother is more frequently stamped on the boy, and that of the father upon the girl - we mean the mental intellectual impress, in distinction from the physical ones. Mothers will do well to remember that their impress is often stamped upon their sons. [ Helen Mar ]

struck in Scrabble®

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

Scrabble® Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters struck:

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struck in Words With Friends™

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

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 14

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters struck:

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In struck

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Shorter words in struck

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Longer words containing struck

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