transitive. To strike, kill, overcome.

transitive. To strike or hit (a person or thing), usually forcefully; to deliver a blow to; to beat; to slap. Also figurative and in figurative…

transitive. To beat, strike, esp. with the hand; to thump, cuff, knock about.

transitive. To deal (a person, an animal) a blow; to hit with some force either with the hand or with a weapon. Also with double object to strike (a…

transitive. To strike, hit. In early use: to strike (esp. a person) forcefully. Now: to strike (a person or thing) in a sharp, usually relatively…

transferred. To strike (a person). Obsolete.

transitive. To strike, kick, drive back.

transitive and intransitive. To strike (at), thump; to shower blows.

transitive. Scottish. To strike (a person). Obsolete.

to bear (a person) a blow: to strike a blow against (a person). Obsolete.

Hence, To ‘have at’, reach, strike (a person).

transitive. To strike, punch, or inflict a blow upon (a person). Now rare (chiefly English regional).

transitive. To knock (on the head), destroy, crush, suppress.

To strike, beat; to knock out.

(With two objects.) to hit any one a blow: to strike him with a blow, to give him a blow.

transitive. To give a blow or slap to; †occasionally transferred with the blow as object. Also figurative.

transitive. To slap, to strike.

To assail with a sudden and violent attack, to charge (an enemy) with troops, etc. Obsolete.

To strike with a bruising blow.

transitive. colloquial. To strike, knock down (a person).

transitive. slang. To strike or shoot (a person). Obsolete.

transitive. To knock, strike (esp. the head).

transitive. To strike, hit, beat up; to stun.

transitive. To buffet (a person).

transitive. To strike, punch, or beat. colloquial or dialect.

Originally U.S. transitive. To hit or punch (a person); to attack; to beat up.

transitive. Originally English regional (northern). To hit or strike (someone or something) with a heavy thud. Also (Military slang): to shell. Now…

transitive. In phrases. to sock it to (one): to strike, deal a blow to (that person); to ‘give it’ to (one). Hence figurative; frequently in…

transitive. slang (originally and chiefly British). To hit, punch (a person); esp. in to dot (a person) one.

To hit, strike. Also to biff (a person) one.

transitive. To hit, punch (esp. Australian and New Zealand); to force by reiterated noise, speech, or effort. Cf. ding, v.1 1a. colloquial.

colloquial. To hit, to strike; to crush, to defeat. Also figurative. Cf. slash, v.1 2b.

colloquial or slang. U.S. slang. To punish, beat, pummel, strike hard, etc.; to criticize harshly, to ‘knock’; to soak it to (one) = to sock it to at…

to cop (a person) one: to deal (someone) a blow. slang.

transitive. colloquial. To hit or strike (a person). Frequently in to poke (a person) one.

to hang one on: to deal (someone) a blow.

transitive. colloquial. To hit, strike, punch. Originally U.S.

transitive. To hit. colloquial.