Verb

(surpris)

To cause (someone) to feel unusually alarmed or delighted.

It surprises me that I owe twice as much as I thought I did.

To do something to (a person) that they are not expecting, as a surprise.

He doesn’t know that I’m in the country – I thought I’d turn up at his house and surprise him.

To undergo or witness something unexpected.

He doesn’t surprise easily.

To cause surprise.

To attack unexpectedly.

To take unawares.

Verb

To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.

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To have a sharp or sudden effect.

#(lb) To hit.

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#*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

#*:He at Philippi kept / His sword e'en like a dancer; while I struck / The lean and wrinkled Cassius.

#(lb) To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.

#*(Bible), (w) xii.7:

#*:They shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two sideposts.

#*(Lord Byron) (1788-1824)

#*:Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow.

#(lb) To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.

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#*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

#*:Strike now, or else the iron cools.

#(lb) To manufacture, as by stamping.

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# To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded.

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#(lb) To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes. Of a clock, to announce (an hour of the day), usually by one or more sounds.

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#(lb) To sound by percussion, with blows, or as if with blows.

#*(Lord Byron) (1788-1824)

#*:A deep sound strikes like a rising knell.

#(lb) To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke.

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#*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

#*:Waving wide her myrtle wand, / She strikes a universal peace through sea and land.

#(lb) To cause to ignite by friction.

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(lb) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.

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To have a sharp or severe effect.

#(lb) To punish; to afflict; to smite.

#*(Bible), Proverbs xvii.26:

#*:To punish the just is not good, nor strike princes for equity.

#(lb) To carry out a violent or illegal action.

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#*:The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.

#(lb) To act suddenly, especially in a violent or criminal way.

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# To impinge upon.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=1 , passage=In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts,

#(lb) To stop working to achieve better working conditions.

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#(lb) To impress, seem or appear (to).

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#*1895 , , (The Time Machine) , Ch.X:

#*:I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable. It struck me as singularly odd, that among the universal decay, this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousand years.

#(lb) To create an impression.

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#*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=20 citation , passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.}}

#(lb) To score a goal.

#*{{quote-news, year=2010, date=December 28, author=Marc Vesty

, work=BBC, title= Stoke 0-2 Fulham , passage=Defender Chris Baird struck twice early in the first half to help Fulham move out of the relegation zone and ease the pressure on manager Mark Hughes.}}

# To steal money.

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# To take forcibly or fraudulently.

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#To make a sudden impression upon, as if by a blow; to affect with some strong emotion.

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#*(Francis Atterbury) (1663-1732)

#*:Nice works of art strike and surprise us most on the first view.

#*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

#*:They please as beauties, here as wonders strike .

#To affect by a sudden impression or impulse.

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# To borrow money from; to make a demand upon.

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To touch; to act by appulse.

*(John Locke) (1632-1705)

*:Hinder light but from striking on it [porphyry], and its colours vanish.

To take down, especially in the following contexts.

#(lb) To haul down or lower (a flag, mast, etc.)

##(lb) To capitulate; to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.

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##*(w) (1643-1715)

##*:The English ships of war should not strike in the Danish seas.

#To dismantle and take away (a theater set; a tent; etc.).

#*1851 , (Herman Melville), (w) , :

#*:“Strike' the tent there!”—was the next order. As I hinted before, this whalebone marquee was never pitched except in port; and on board the Pequod, for thirty years, the order to ' strike the tent was well known to be the next thing to heaving up the anchor.

(lb) To set off on a walk or trip.

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, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}

(lb) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.

*(Bible), (w) vii.23:

*:till a dart strike through his liver

*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)

*:Now and then a glittering beam of wit or passion strikes through the obscurity of the poem.

(lb) To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into .

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(lb) To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.

To make and ratify.

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To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.

(lb) To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.

To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.

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To lade into a cooler, as a liquor.

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To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.

*(Bible), 2 (w) v.11:

*:Behold, I thought, He willstrike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.

(lb) To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:well struck in years

To balance (a ledger or account).