Synonym: act, attack, attempt, caress, convulsion, deed, effort, feat, massage, pet, rub, seizure, spasm, undertaking. Similar words: broker, strong, astronomer, joke, poke, invoke, provoke, bespoke. Meaning: [strəʊk] 
n. 1. (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand 2. the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam 3. a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain 4. a light touch 5. a light touch with the hands 6. the oarsman nearest the stern of the shell who sets the pace for the rest of the crew 7. a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information 8. a mark made by a writing implement (as in cursive writing) 9. any one of the repeated movements of the limbs and body used for locomotion in swimming or rowing 10. a single complete movement. v. 1. touch lightly and with affection, with brushing motions 2. strike a ball with a smooth blow 3. row at a particular rate 4. treat gingerly or carefully.
n. 1. (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand 2. the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam 3. a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain 4. a light touch 5. a light touch with the hands 6. the oarsman nearest the stern of the shell who sets the pace for the rest of the crew 7. a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information 8. a mark made by a writing implement (as in cursive writing) 9. any one of the repeated movements of the limbs and body used for locomotion in swimming or rowing 10. a single complete movement. v. 1. touch lightly and with affection, with brushing motions 2. strike a ball with a smooth blow 3. row at a particular rate 4. treat gingerly or carefully. 
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151. Life is a canvas. Every action of ours is a stroke of paint and at the end, how beautiful our painting is will depend upon all our strokes, all our actions. RVM 
152. I stroke her lifeless cheek, and as I do the deep purple bruises seem to fade a little.
153. Following a stroke, some one might speak only a language that she learned as an exchange student.
154. He suffered a little stroke after his surgery and took awhile to recover.
155. In the evenings, when I am apt to recede to a withdrawn vacancy, she will come to stroke my hand.
156. Through a stroke of geologic good fortune, hydrothermal water percolates up through the landscape and feeds into the Colorado.
157. At a stroke he was lifting the ban on radios and newspapers.
158. Research is becoming more and more clear about the value of vegetables in reducing risks for heart disease, stroke and cancer.
159. Routes may be closed, reducing accessibility, or subsidies may be removed, increasing fares for users at a stroke.
160. It seemed likely that Stanley's stroke was connected with his lifestyle.
161. The pattern of the photo-reproductive screen is enlarged to become a characteristic painting stroke.
162. My hands needed to stay still, with my wrists twisting up and down after each stroke to flatten out the oars.
163. This way we get rid of several problems at one stroke, including probably reducing the agricultural capacity of farmers in Britain.
164. These are the plus, the stroke, the colon, the square brackets and the double colon.
165. The care of stroke patients involves a plethora of different health and social care workers.
166. Comrades however had the last say when Dean Gordon grabbed a consolation goal for them on the stroke of full time.
167. Fourthly, neither death due to stroke nor cardiac death would be reduced.
168. At a stroke, this would eliminate academic corruption while benefiting the athletes.
169. Bill Dailey, 54, a bartender at the downtown Radisson Hotel, also bounded back from a massive stroke.
170. The recognition of cursive script is much more difficult because several characters can be written with a single stroke.
171. My brilliant stroke has been to confine myself to physical things, to the immediate and tangible.
172. At a stroke the party managers and fixers have lost their assumption of a divine right to power.
173. Mrs, Reed, having had a stroke as a result,(sentence dictionary) asks to see Jane Eyre.
174. These tips also help prevent heat exhaustion, only several cases of which advance to potentially deadly heat stroke at the Canyon.
175. Beyond his financial acumen, Grigsby knows how to stroke business and political movers.
176. Some stroke victims recover on their own; the study will determine how many, and whether mo re recover on tPA.
177. Regardless of how reserved or proper they may have been before the stroke, their limited language is sometimes dominated by swearing.
178. A nonlinear relationship was observed between coronary heart and stroke mortality with the two hour postprandial blood glucose.
179. The sun will never swing away from that casement window, for we have abolished time at a stroke, my dearest spirit!
180. Several monitors have come down with heat rash and heat stroke this summer.
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