Synonym: bat, clout, hit, jab, knock, rebel, revolt, smack, whack. Antonym: ball. Similar words: striking, strip, string, strict, strictly, district, restrict, distribute. Meaning: [straɪk] 
n. 1. a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions 2. an attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or destroy an objective 3. (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 4. a gentle blow 5. a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball 6. a conspicuous success. v. 1. hit against; come into sudden contact with 2. deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon 3. have an emotional or cognitive impact upon 4. make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target 5. indicate (a certain time) by striking 6. affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely 7. stop work in order to press demands 8. touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly 9. attain 10. produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments, also metaphorically 11. cause to form (an electric arc) between electrodes of an arc lamp 12. find unexpectedly 13. produce by ignition or a blow 14. remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line 15. cause to experience suddenly 16. drive something violently into a location 17. occupy or take on 18. form by stamping, punching, or printing 19. smooth with a strickle 20. pierce with force 21. arrive at after reckoning, deliberating, and weighing.
n. 1. a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions 2. an attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or destroy an objective 3. (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 4. a gentle blow 5. a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball 6. a conspicuous success. v. 1. hit against; come into sudden contact with 2. deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon 3. have an emotional or cognitive impact upon 4. make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target 5. indicate (a certain time) by striking 6. affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely 7. stop work in order to press demands 8. touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly 9. attain 10. produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments, also metaphorically 11. cause to form (an electric arc) between electrodes of an arc lamp 12. find unexpectedly 13. produce by ignition or a blow 14. remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line 15. cause to experience suddenly 16. drive something violently into a location 17. occupy or take on 18. form by stamping, punching, or printing 19. smooth with a strickle 20. pierce with force 21. arrive at after reckoning, deliberating, and weighing. 
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271) I always tried to strike a happy medium between having a home that looked like a bomb had hit it and becoming obsessively tidy.
272) I was keen to strike up a conversation with him.
273) Failure to reach an agreement will result in a strike.
274) After working as an employee for many years, Bill suddenly decided to strike out and open his own shop.
275) After last year's long and bitter strike, few people want further industrial action.
276) They tried every means to hold down the workers on strike.
277) As a result of the pilots' strike, all flights have had to be cancelled.
278) He claimed that it was her rudeness that provoked him to strike her.
279) The call for a one-day national strike was dismissed as gesture politics.
280) Unfortunately a strike was the only way to make our voices heard.
281) The union said they will ballot members on whether to strike.
282) Nurses came out on strike in sympathy with the doctors. Sentencedict.com
283) One strike against him as a candidate is his perceived lack of charisma.
284) The lorry drivers' strike has put back our deliveries by over a month.
285) The strike brought the capital city to a grinding halt.
286) The workers threw down their tools and declared a strike.
287) There had been a strike amongst British Airways ground staff.
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