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strike English

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strike

When you hit something, you strike it. If you strike a person, it will hurt. He struck the boy with his hand. When an idea strikes you, it occurs to you suddenly or with force. To play with fire strikes me as a bad idea. When a clock rings a bell to tell you the time, the clock strikes the time. The children ran out of the school when the clock struck twelve. A disease can strike a person. That person is stricken with disease. The child was stricken with a serious blood disease. When you strike a part from a document, it is stricken from the document. The errors were stricken from the dictionary. When bad luck strikes you, you are stricken with bad luck.

strike

When a group of people stop working to improve or defend their working conditions or pay, they go on strike. Every secretary at the company went on strike for better pay.

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 (= impress) have an emotional or cognitive impact upon This child impressed me as unusually mature This behavior struck me as odd (= hit) hit against; come into sudden contact with The car hit a tree He struck the table with his elbow 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 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 indicate (a certain time) by striking The clock struck midnight Just when I entered, the clock struck (= hit) 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 (= 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 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 an attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or destroy an objective the strike was scheduled to begin at dawn cause to form (an electric arc) between electrodes of an arc lamp strike an arc attain The horse finally struck a pace (= fall, shine) 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 produce by ignition or a blow strike fire from the flintstone strike a match (= scratch) remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line Please strike this remark from the record scratch that remark (= chance upon) find unexpectedly the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb she struck a goldmine The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake pierce with force The bullet struck her thigh The icy wind struck through our coats arrive at after reckoning, deliberating, and weighing strike a balance strike a bargain a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball he finished with three strikes in the tenth frame (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 (= rap) a gentle blow (= strickle) smooth with a strickle strickle the grain in the measure (= hit, 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 (= hit) drive something violently into a location he hit his fist on the table she struck her head on the low ceiling (= coin) form by stamping, punching, or printing strike coins strike a medal (= assume, take, 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 (= hit, smasher, 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

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strike · verb

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Simple sentences

Strike while the iron is hot.
There is a strike.
The strike lasted three days.
We were on strike.
With this strike we're sawing off the branch we're sitting on.
Tom went on a hunger strike.
I would never go on a hunger strike for anything.
People are on strike in France.
Tom has been on hunger strike for a week.
We should strike a balance between our expenditure and income.
The bus drivers are on strike today.
Will the strike affect the price of coal?
The strike affected the nation's economy.
There is no telling when a severe earthquake will strike Tokyo.
He had gone there to help garbage workers strike peacefully for better pay and working conditions.
His answer was to strike me on the head.
They are on strike for money.
The mail is delayed because of the strike.
The train strike didn't bother me at all.
The workers are on strike.
I have a good mind to strike you for being so rude.
Strike his name from the list.
Workers at the company went on a strike.
The general strike paralyzed the whole country.
I had to cancel my trip on account of the strike.

Movie subtitles

You never know when some giant fiendish beast Will strike at us with its horrible fanged tentacles.
Edward had called for a strike against his company.
Strike me and you end up in a cell where you will be even more useless than you currently are.
Like a witch forced by the devil, this woman both when sleeping and awake - gives way to a mysterious craving to strike matches.
Amenes is paralyzed with fear, Samlak wants to strike a dagger into Theonis.
Strike with all our power.
Strike me down dead, Doctor.
I'll strike anybody in anybody's house that calls me a Cinderella Man.
Strike me pink.
Strike me pink!
Strike me, would you?
The curse has struck her, and now, through her, it will strike my son.
Kent! You were ordered to prepare the strike against the Overseas Bank.
YOU SAY SOMETHING TO MAKE HIM MAD AND HE'LL STRIKE YOU!
Does something strike you funny about this picture?
Strike me down dead, Doctor. He's got me going.
We're on a hunger strike.
How about postponing the strike till tomorrow?
Doesn't it strike you as strange that this Marquis de San Marco though traveling elaborately around this country is never bothered by these bandits?
Say something to make him mad, and he'll strike you.
Swell. Couldn't I strike him?
Oh, so you want to strike me?
Hunger strike?
Did he strike you?
One must strike while the iron's hot. Come with me.
Don't you mean a preemptive strike?
We will start a rumour of a strike.
Kate. I can't strike my own father!
So go on strike.
There's two explanations that strike me, either the body was stolen by the members of a death cult that use human bones in their ceremonies, or else.
Couldn't I strike him?
How do you know when he'll strike?
Hunger strike, eh?

News and current affairs

Doctors are on strike, taxes are on the rise, the parties in government are mauling each other, and Chancellor Angela Merkel herself proclaimed in a prominent speech that the country is in disastrous shape.
It is in recognition of this fact that German conservatives strive, for example, to strike a balance between economy and ecology.
In a fast changing world, this skepticism of the center is the only sensible attitude a responsible political party and government can strike.
Israeli bombs and missiles periodically strike the encapsulated area, causing high casualties among both militants and innocent women and children.
The US has never had a no-first-strike policy, but it has likewise never had a policy such as that embodied in the Nuclear Policy Review.
This is why the Bush administration has shied away from military confrontations with North Korea and Iran, despite its veneration of Israel's air strike on Iraq's Osirak reactor in 1981, which set back Saddam Hussein's nuclear program by several years.
America's allies, in turn, must be prepared to close ranks with it on both the outlines of a deal and the willingness to strike militarily.
Similarly, many company bosses know that pretending that climate problems do not exist is bad for shareholders, because reality will one day strike.
And, rather than promoting caution and stability in the region, Iran or Israel could be tempted to strike first in a crisis.
At the opposite end of the spectrum of policy choices is a preventive attack: a military strike (most likely by Israel, the US, or both) against sites in Iran associated with its nuclear program.
While these issues strike at the core of a country's values - of what we mean by democracy and limits on government intrusion into individuals' lives - they are also economic issues.
In addition to the massive earthquakes that struck Haiti and Chile, the region has also been shaken by a hunger-strike death in Cuba and a growing crackdown on human rights and opposition in Venezuela.
He has been an icon, representing the ability to strike with success against the US and the West.
Indeed, it could even grow somewhat worse in the short run, as there are sure to be those who will want to show that they can still strike against the West.
The events of September 11, 2001, are also playing a crucial role in deciding the question of a punitive strike against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
Wariness of another Middle East war has also underpinned Obama's unwillingness to go beyond a one-time punitive strike on Syria - with some in Congress opposed to even that.
Some are convinced that a nuclear Iran is the worst of all possible scenarios, worse even than the fall-out from a pre-emptive strike.
Indeed, the only certainty of any pre-emptive strike is irreparable and long-lasting damage to regional security and political and economic stability.
As many experts warn, the first time a drone strike kills a woman or child, a video of the scene and the funeral will be posted for the Muslim world to see.
A strike designed to destroy Assad's air force and prevent him from dropping bombs full of nails on his people would concentrate his mind on a diplomatic solution.
But the global slowdown, which takes the fangs out of the strike threat, will keep private-sector workers in line no matter how much their leaders may rant and rave.
China's attacks have pushed Li, after almost three weeks of stony silence, to do something he had never done before: strike back.

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