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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181) May God strike me dead if I'm telling a lie!
182) He could strike the ball as sweetly as when he was 28 years younger.
183) My golf was terrible today - I just didn't strike the ball well.
184) Air traffic controllers are threatening to come out on / go on strike.
185) Air France pilots called a strike over the European harmonisation of their working hours.
186) The shipbuilders went out on strike for better working conditions.
187) The question of strike action must be put to union members.
188) He would ask Congress to intervene and head off a strike.
189) We instruct our staff never to strike back however angry they feel.
190) A new threat to Bulgaria's stability is the week-old miners' strike for a trebling of minimum pay.
191) Such prejudices strike right at the heart of any notions of a civilized society.
192) With the strike, a historical watershed in the development of the trade union movement was reached.
193) The army provided emergency cover when the ambulance service went on strike.
194) The first person to strike oil in the US was Edwin Laurentine Drake.
195) If there is a single subject guaranteed to strike fear in the hearts of parents, it is drugs.
196) The general public has been greatly inconvenienced by this strike.
197) The transport union has confirmed that the strike is definitely on.
198) The factory was shut down for two months as a result of the strike.
199) Senior managers are convinced that the strike will have a negligible impact.
200) They refused to obey the court's order to call off the strike .
201) The company locked out the workers, and then the rest of the work force went on strike.
202) The government's announcement is seen as a move towards settling the strike.
203) The management have made no move to settle the strike.
204) All this talk of a strike has clearly ruffled the management's feathers.
205) The strike caused a great delay in the delivery of the mail.
206) It can be difficult to strike up a conversation with a complete stranger.
207) Urged on by the PM the police tried to end the strike.
208) You may strike lucky and find a sympathetic and helpful clerk, but, there again,(http://sentencedict.com/strike.html) you might not.
209) They promised that the army would strike with an iron fist at any resistance.
210) The government coaxed them to give up their strike by promising them temporary residence permits.
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