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Nouns (14)

n. (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"

strike

n. an attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or destroy an objective; "the strike was scheduled to begin at dawn"

strike

n. a pull on the line, made by the fish in the process of taking the bait

strike, ten-strike

n. a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball; "he finished with three strikes in the tenth frame"

strike, work stoppage

n. 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"

hit, bang, smash, strike

n. 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, tap, rap

n. a gentle blow

Verbs (50)

strike

v. cause to form (an electric arc) between electrodes of an arc lamp; "strike an arc"

strike

v. indicate (a certain time) by striking; "The clock struck midnight"; "Just when I entered, the clock struck"

strike

v. 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"

strike

v. to harpoon a whale

hit, strike

v. 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"

hit, strike

v. deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument; "He hit her hard in the face"

hit, strike

v. produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments, also metaphorically; "The pianist strikes a middle C"; "strike `z' on the keyboard"; "her comments struck a sour note"

strike, flick

v. touch or hit with a light, quick blow; "flicked him with his hand"

strike, produce by ignition

v. produce by ignition or a blow; "strike fire from the flintstone"; "strike a match"

strike, come to

v. attain; "The horse finally struck a pace"

strike, come upon, strike upon

v. arrive at after reckoning, deliberating, and weighing; "strike a balance"; "strike a bargain"

strike, excise, expunge

v. remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line; "Please strike this remark from the record"; "scratch that remark"

strike, mint, coin

v. form by stamping, punching, or printing; "strike coins"; "strike a medal"

hit, strike, come to

v. 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"

strike, walk out, go on strike

v. 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"

strike, impress, move, affect, make an impression on

v. have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd"

hit, strike, impinge on, collide with, hit against, run into

v. hit against; come into sudden contact with; "The car hit a tree"; "He struck the table with his elbow"

strike, come across, discover, come upon, light upon, happen upon, chance upon, chance on

v. find unexpectedly; "the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb"; "she struck a goldmine"; "The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake"

Adverbs (6)

lightly

adv. indulging with temperance; "we eat lightly in the morning"

light, lightly

adv. with few burdens; "experienced travellers travel light"

softly, lightly, gently

adv. with little weight or force; "she kissed him lightly on the forehead"

Adjectives (0)

Fuzzynyms (207)

protest, objection, dissent

n. the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent

rally

n. (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes; "after a short rally Connors won the point"

bat

v. strike with, or as if with a baseball bat; "bat the ball"

swat, swatter

v. hit swiftly with a violent blow; "Swat flies"

clap

v. strike with the flat of the hand; usually in a friendly way, as in encouragement or greeting

poke, thump, pound

v. hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument; "the salesman pounded the door knocker"; "a bible-thumping Southern Baptist"

cudgel, strike with a cudgel

v. strike with a cudgel

bruise, contuse

v. injure the underlying soft tissue of bone of; "I bruised my knee"

strike hard, smite

v. inflict a heavy blow on, with the hand, a tool, or a weapon

cuff, whomp

v. hit with the hand

biff, pommel, pummel

v. strike, usually with the fist; "The pedestrians pummeled the demonstrators"

dawn, become light, grow light

v. become light; "It started to dawn, and we had to get up"

appear, seem

v. come into sight or view; "He suddenly appeared at the wedding"; "A new star appeared on the horizon"

rise, arise, get up, stand up, get to one's feet

v. rise to one's feet; "The audience got up and applauded"

start, begin, commence, set about, set out, start out

v. take the first step or steps in carrying out an action; "We began working at dawn"; "Who will start?"; "Get working as soon as the sun rises!"; "The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia"; "He began early in the day"; "Let's get down to work now"

start, begin, commence, cause to start, set in motion

v. set in motion, cause to start; "The U.S. started a war in the Middle East"; "The Iraqis began hostilities"; "begin a new chapter in your life"

emerge

v. become known or apparent; "Some nice results emerged from the study"

stretch, stretch out, unfold

v. extend or stretch out to a greater or the full length; "Unfold the newspaper"; "stretch out that piece of cloth"; "extend the TV antenna"

poke, thump, pound

v. hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument; "the salesman pounded the door knocker"; "a bible-thumping Southern Baptist"

bruise, contuse

v. injure the underlying soft tissue of bone of; "I bruised my knee"

biff, pommel, pummel

v. strike, usually with the fist; "The pedestrians pummeled the demonstrators"

swat, swatter

v. hit swiftly with a violent blow; "Swat flies"

beat, beat up

v. give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students"

hit, knock, bump

v. "My car bumped into the tree"

knock, strike hard

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

slap

v. hit with something flat, like a paddle or the open hand; "The impatient teacher slapped the student"; "a gunshot slapped him on the forehead"

bat

v. strike with, or as if with a baseball bat; "bat the ball"

cuff, whomp

v. hit with the hand

pass, hap, pass off, happen, occur, go on, come about, take place, come to pass

v. come to pass; "What is happening?"; "The meeting took place off without an incidence"; "Nothing occurred that seemed important"

take, remove, take away

v. remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment"

edit, redact, change a text

v. prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting; "Edit a book on lexical semantics"; "she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages"

redress, right, correct, compensate

v. make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"

mark, strike out, cross off, cross out, strike off

v. remove from a list; "Cross the name of the dead person off the list"

eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, decimate, carry off, wipe out

v. terminate or take out; "Let's eliminate the course on Akkadian hieroglyphics"

kill, obliterate, wipe out

v. mark for deletion, rub off, or erase; "kill these lines in the President's speech"

clear, delete, erase

v. wipe out magnetically recorded information

cleanse, denazify, free from Nazi ideology

v. clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing; "clean up before you see your grandparents"; "clean your fingernails before dinner"

free, justify, absolve

v. let off the hook; "I absolve you from this responsibility"

cut, bowdlerize, bowdlerise, expurgate, shorten

v. cut and assemble the components of; "edit film"; "cut recording tape"

purge, rid of impurities

v. rid of impurities; "purge the water"; "purge your mind"

sublimate, distill, purify, make pure, remove impurities from

v. remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation; "purify the water"

cause, create, originate

v. make or cause to be or to become; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor"

introduce

v. bring in or establish in a new place or environment; "introduce a rule"; "introduce exotic fruits"

forge, devise, formulate, invent, contrive, excogitate

v. come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light"

stamp

v. destroy or extinguish as if by stamping with the foot; "Stamp fascism into submission"; "stamp out tyranny"

picket, post pickets, serve as pickets

v. serve as pickets or post pickets; "picket a business to protest the layoffs"

boycott

v. refuse to sponsor; refuse to do business with

excite, agitate, commove, charge up

v. cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks"

click, get through, come home to, penetrate, dawn on, sink in, click with, get across, came to, fall into place

v. be in or establish communication with; "Our advertisements reach millions"; "He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia"

animate, enliven, invigorate, inspire, exalt

v. heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination"

shape, influence, regulate, determine

v. shape or influence; give direction to; "experience often determines ability"; "mold public opinion"

overwhelm, overcome, overpower, overtake, whelm, sweep over

v. overcome, as with emotions or perceptual stimuli

shift, careen, sway, tilt, wobble

v. move back and forth or sideways; "the ship was rocking"; "the tall building swayed"; "She rocked back and forth on her feet"

fire, arouse, elicit, evoke, provoke, enkindle, kindle

v. call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"

poke, thump, pound

v. hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument; "the salesman pounded the door knocker"; "a bible-thumping Southern Baptist"

bruise, contuse

v. injure the underlying soft tissue of bone of; "I bruised my knee"

biff, pommel, pummel

v. strike, usually with the fist; "The pedestrians pummeled the demonstrators"

swat, swatter

v. hit swiftly with a violent blow; "Swat flies"

beat, beat up

hit, knock, bump

v. "My car bumped into the tree"

knock, strike hard

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

slap

v. hit with something flat, like a paddle or the open hand; "The impatient teacher slapped the student"; "a gunshot slapped him on the forehead"

bat

v. strike with, or as if with a baseball bat; "bat the ball"

cuff, whomp

v. hit with the hand

ferret out

v. search and discover through persistent investigation; "She ferreted out the truth"

root, rout, rootle

v. dig with the snout; "the pig was rooting for truffles"

weakly, softly, faintly

adv. "He wheezed weakly"

Synonyms (7)

fell, drop, cut down, strike down

v. cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow; "strike down a tree"; "Lightning struck down the hikers"

gun down, shoot down, strike down

v. strike down or shoot down

Antonyms (10)

miss

v. fail to reach; "The arrow missed the target"

lose, lose sight of, miss from one's possessions

v. miss from one's possessions; lose sight of; "I've lost my glasses again!"

hard, heavily, intemperately

adv. indulging excessively; "he drank heavily"

liberally, munificently, generously

adv. in a generous manner; "he gave liberally to several charities"

strike lightly

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