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[ struhk ] / strʌk / SEE SYNONYMS FOR struck ON THESAURUS.COM
verbsimple past tense and a past participle of strike. adjective(of a factory, industry, etc.) closed or otherwise affected by a strike of workers. Origin of struck1890–95 for def. 2 Words nearby struckstroud, strove, strow, stroy, Strozzi, struck, struck jury, struck measure, structural, structural anthropology, structural formula Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for struckHe spoke of the present-day tragedies and turmoil that struck the city while he and his classmates were in the academy. Cop Families Boo De Blasio at NYPD Graduation|Michael Daly|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST He has struck a promising tone these last few days with his rhetoric about trying to “see each other.” Memo to Cops: Criticisms Aren’t Attacks|Michael Tomasky|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST Like that tourist handing out cigars, I, too, had a family member in one of the towers that had been struck by a plane. The Life and Hard Times Of The Family A Cuban Defector Left Behind|Brin-Jonathan Butler|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST I struck up a conversation with a man in his fifties or sixties who had a Brooklyn accent. I Ate Potato Pancakes Til I Plotzed|Emily Shire|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
That struck the ACLU—and the judge in the case, Alvin Hellerstein—as a specious argument. The Detainee Abuse Photos Obama Didn’t Want You To See|Noah Shachtman, Tim Mak|December 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST By and by, the African, while kicking, struck bottom with one foot. Wyoming|Edward Sylvester Ellis His heavy gun, swinging low, struck her as she stepped down. The Man of the Forest|Zane Grey In another minute nine o'clock struck, and a gentle tap at the door called them both back into the world again. Tom Brown's School Days|Thomas Hughes It struck me that he had a great deal of time and very few visitors, except thieves. Frulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther|Elizabeth von Arnim I struck several, but each went out in the high wind before igniting the tobacco. The International Spy|Allen Upward
British Dictionary definitions for struck
verbthe past tense and past participle of strike adjectivemainly US and Canadian (of an industry, factory, etc) shut down or otherwise affected by a labour strike Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to struckbattered, closed, hurt, smacked, pounded, idle, shut down |