strike
Definition
- n. a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad work conditions
- n. an attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or destroy an objective
- n. a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball
- n. (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
Word forms
- Past tense
- struck
- Past participle
- struck
- Third person singular
- strikes
- Present participle
- striking
Example sentences
n.
The workers decided to go on strike to demand better wages.
vt.
He tried to strike the ball with his racket during the match.
vi.
The clock will strike midnight soon.