strike

Pronunciation

• IPA: /stɻaɪk/
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Verb

Plain form strike

Third person singular strikes

Simple past struck

Past participle struck

Present participle striking

1. (transitive) When you hit something, you strike it.

   If you strike a person, it will hurt.

   He struck the boy with his hand.

2. When an idea strikes you, it occurs to you suddenly or with force.

   To play with fire strikes me as a bad idea.

3. 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.

Plain form strike

Third-person singular strikes

Past tense struck

Past participle stricken

Present participle striking

1. A disease can strike a person. That person is stricken with disease.

   The child was stricken with a serious blood disease.

2. When you strike a part from a document, it is stricken from the document.

   The errors were stricken from the dictionary.

3. When bad luck strikes you, you are stricken with bad luck.

Most of the time the past participle of “strike” is “struck.” The exceptions are that you can be stricken with guilt, a misfortune, a wound or a disease; and a passage in a document can be stricken out. The rest of the time, stick with “struck.”

Noun

Singular strike

Plural strikes

1. (countable) When a group of people stop working to get more money, they go on strike.

   Every secretary at the company went on strike for better pay.