[syn: strickle, strike]
20. pierce with force;
- Example: "The bullet struck her thigh"
- Example: "The icy wind struck through our coats"
21. arrive at after reckoning, deliberating, and weighing;
- Example: "strike a balance"
- Example: "strike a bargain"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Strike \Strike\, v. t. [imp. Struck; p. p. Struck,
Stricken(Stroock, Strucken, Obs.); p. pr. & vb. n.
Striking. Struck is more commonly used in the p. p. than
stricken.] [OE. striken to strike, proceed, flow, AS.
str[imac]can to go, proceed, akin to D. strijken to rub,
stroke, strike, to move, go, G. streichen, OHG.
str[imac]hhan, L. stringere to touch lightly, to graze, to
strip off (but perhaps not to L. stringere in sense to draw
tight), striga a row, a furrow. Cf. Streak, Stroke.]
1. To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or
with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either
with the hand or with any instrument or missile.
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He at Philippi kept
His sword e'en like a dancer; while I struck
The lean and wrinkled Cassius. --Shak.
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2. To come in collision with; to strike against; as, a bullet
struck him; the wave struck the boat amidships; the ship
struck a reef.
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3. To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a
force to; to dash; to cast.
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They shall take of the blood, and strike it on the
two sideposts. --Ex. xii. 7.
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Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow.
--Byron.
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4. To stamp or impress with a stroke; to coin; as, to strike
coin from metal: to strike dollars at the mint.
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5. To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate; to set in
the earth; as, a tree strikes its roots deep.
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6. To punish; to afflict; to smite.
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To punish the just is not good, nor strike princes
for equity. --Prov. xvii.
26.
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7. To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or
notify by audible strokes; as, the clock strikes twelve;
the drums strike up a march.
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8. To lower; to let or take down; to remove; as, to strike
sail; to strike a flag or an ensign, as in token of
surrender; to strike a yard or a topmast in a gale; to
strike a tent; to strike the centering of an arch.
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9. To make a sudden impression upon, as by a blow; to affect
sensibly with some strong emotion; as, to strike the mind,
with surprise; to strike one with wonder, alarm, dread, or
horror.
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Nice works of art strike and surprise us most on the
first view. --Atterbury.
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They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.
--Pope.
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10. To affect in some particular manner by a sudden
impression or impulse; as, the plan proposed strikes me
favorably; to strike one dead or blind.
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How often has stricken you dumb with his irony!
--Landor.
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11. To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a
stroke; as, to strike a light.
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Waving wide her myrtle wand,
She strikes a universal peace through sea and land.
--Milton.
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12. To cause to ignite; as, to strike a match.
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13. To make and ratify; as, to strike a bargain.
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Note: Probably borrowed from the L. foedus ferrire, to strike
a compact, so called because an animal was struck and
killed as a sacrifice on such occasions.
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14. To take forcibly or fraudulently; as, to strike money.
[Old Slang]
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15. To level, as a measure of grain, salt, or the like, by
scraping off with a straight instrument what is above the
level of the top.
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16. (Masonry) To cut off, as a mortar joint, even with the
face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
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17. To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly; as, my eye struck a
strange word; they soon struck the trail.
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18. To borrow money of; to make a demand upon; as, he struck
a friend for five dollars. [Slang]
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19. To lade into a cooler, as a liquor. --B. Edwards.
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20. To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
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Behold, I thought, He will . . . strike his hand
over the place, and recover the leper. --2 Kings v.
11.
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21. To advance; to cause to go forward; -- used only in past
participle. "Well struck in years." --Shak.
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To strike an attitude, To strike a balance. See under
Attitude, and Balance.
To strike a jury (Law), to constitute a special jury
ordered by a court, by each party striking out a certain
number of names from a prepared list of jurors, so as to
reduce it to the number of persons required by law.
--Burrill.
To strike a lead.
(a) (Mining) To find a vein of ore.
(b) Fig.: To find a way to fortune. [Colloq.]
To strike a ledger or To strike an account, to balance
it.
To strike hands with.
(a) To shake hands with. --Halliwell.
(b) To make a compact or agreement with; to agree with.
To strike off.
(a) To erase from an account; to deduct; as, to strike
off the interest of a debt.
(b) (Print.) To impress; to print; as, to strike off a
thousand copies of a book.
(c) To separate by a blow or any sudden action; as, to
strike off what is superfluous or corrupt.
To strike oil, to find petroleum when boring for it;
figuratively, to make a lucky hit financially. [Slang,
U.S.]
To strike one luck, to shake hands with one and wish good
luck. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
To strike out.
(a) To produce by collision; to force out, as, to strike
out sparks with steel.
(b) To blot out; to efface; to erase. "To methodize is as
necessary as to strike out." --Pope.
(c) To form by a quick effort; to devise; to invent; to
contrive, as, to strike out a new plan of finance.
(d) (Baseball) To cause a player to strike out; -- said
of the pitcher. See To strike out, under Strike,
v. i.
To strike sail. See under Sail.
To strike up.
(a) To cause to sound; to begin to beat. "Strike up the
drums." --Shak.
(b) To begin to sing or play; as, to strike up a tune.
(c) To raise (as sheet metal), in making diahes, pans,
etc., by blows or pressure in a die.
To strike work, to quit work; to go on a strike.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Strike \Strike\, v. i.
To move; to advance; to proceed; to take a course; as, to
strike into the fields.
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A mouse . . . struck forth sternly [bodily]. --Piers
Plowman.
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2. To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
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And fiercely took his trenchant blade in hand,
With which he stroke so furious and so fell.
--Spenser.
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Strike now, or else the iron cools. --Shak.
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3. To hit; to collide; to dush; to clash; as, a hammer
strikes against the bell of a clock.
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4. To sound by percussion, with blows, or as with blows; to
be struck; as, the clock strikes.
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A deep sound strikes like a rising knell. --Byron.
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5. To make an attack; to aim a blow.
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A puny subject strikes
At thy great glory. --Shak.
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Struck for throne, and striking found his doom.
--Tennyson.
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6. To touch; to act by appulse.
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Hinder light but from striking on it [porphyry], and
its colors vanish. --Locke.
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7. To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; as, the ship
struck in the night.
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8. To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to
penetrate.
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Till a dart strike through his liver. --Prov. vii.
23.
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Now and then a glittering beam of wit or passion
strikes through the obscurity of the poem. --Dryden.
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9. To break forth; to commence suddenly; -- with into; as, to
strike into reputation; to strike into a run.
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10. To lower a flag, or colors, in token of respect, or to
signify a surrender of a ship to an enemy.
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That the English ships of war should not strike in
the Danish seas. --Bp. Burnet.
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11. To quit work in order to compel an increase, or prevent a
reduction, of wages.
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12. To become attached to something; -- said of the spat of
oysters.
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13. To steal money. [Old Slang, Eng.] --Nares.
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To strike at, to aim a blow at.
To strike for, to start suddenly on a course for.
To strike home, to give a blow which reaches its object, to
strike with effect.
To strike in.
(a) To enter suddenly.
(b) To disappear from the surface, with internal effects,
as an eruptive disease.
(c) To come in suddenly; to interpose; to interrupt. "I
proposed the embassy of Constantinople for Mr.
Henshaw, but my Lord Winchelsea struck in." --Evelyn.
(d) To join in after another has begun,as in singing.
To strike in with, to conform to; to suit itself to; to
side with, to join with at once. "To assert this is to
strike in with the known enemies of God's grace." --South.
To strike out.
(a) To start; to wander; to make a sudden excursion; as,
to strike out into an irregular course of life.
(b) To strike with full force.
(c) (Baseball) To be put out for not hitting the ball
during one's turn at the bat.
To strike up, to commence to play as a musician; to begin
to sound, as an instrument. "Whilst any trump did sound,
or drum struck up." --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Strike \Strike\, n.
1. The act of striking.
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2. An instrument with a straight edge for leveling a measure
of grain, salt, and the like, scraping off what is above
the level of the top; a strickle.
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3. A bushel; four pecks. [Prov. Eng.] --Tusser.
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4. An old measure of four bushels. [Prov. Eng.]
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5. Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.
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Three hogsheads of ale of the first strike. --Sir W.
Scott.
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6. An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence. [Obs.]
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7. The act of quitting work; specifically, such an act by a
body of workmen, usually organized by a labor union, done
as a means of enforcing compliance with demands made on
their employer.
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Strikes are the insurrections of labor. --F. A.
Walker.
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8. (Iron Working) A puddler's stirrer.
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9. (Geol.) The horizontal direction of the outcropping edges
of tilted rocks; or, the direction of a horizontal line
supposed to be drawn on the surface of a tilted stratum.
It is at right angles to the dip.
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10. The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money,
by threat of injury; blackmailing.
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11. A sudden finding of rich ore in mining; hence, any sudden
success or good fortune, esp. financial.
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12. (Bowling, U. S.) The act of leveling all the pins with
the first bowl; also, the score thus made. Sometimes
called double spare. Throwing a strike entitles the
player to add to the score for that frame the total
number of pins knocked down in the next two bowls.
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13. (Baseball) Any actual or constructive striking at the
pitched ball, three of which, if the ball is not hit
fairly, cause the batter to be put out; hence, any of
various acts or events which are ruled as equivalent to
such a striking, as failing to strike at a ball so
pitched that the batter should have struck at it. "It's
one, two, three strikes you're out in the old ball game."
--[Take me out to the ball game]
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14. (Tenpins) Same as Ten-strike.
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Strike block (Carp.), a plane shorter than a jointer, used
for fitting a short joint. --Moxon.
Strike of flax, a handful that may be hackled at once.
[Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Chaucer.
Strike of sugar. (Sugar Making)
(a) The act of emptying the teache, or last boiler, in
which the cane juice is exposed to heat, into the
coolers.
(b) The quantity of the sirup thus emptied at once.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
strike
n 1: a group's refusal to work in protest against low pay or bad
work conditions; "the strike lasted more than a month
before it was settled" [syn: strike, work stoppage]
2: an attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or
destroy an objective; "the strike was scheduled to begin at
dawn"
3: a gentle blow [syn: rap, strike, tap]
4: a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first
ball; "he finished with three strikes in the tenth frame"
[syn: strike, ten-strike]
5: (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;
"this pitcher throws more strikes than balls"
6: a conspicuous success; "that song was his first hit and
marked the beginning of his career"; "that new Broadway show
is a real smasher"; "the party went with a bang" [syn: hit,
smash, smasher, strike, bang]
v 1: deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon;
"The teacher struck the child"; "the opponent refused to
strike"; "The boxer struck the attacker dead"
2: have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child
impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me
as odd" [syn: affect, impress, move, strike]
3: hit against; come into sudden contact with; "The car hit a
tree"; "He struck the table with his elbow" [syn: hit,
strike, impinge on, run into, collide with] [ant:
miss]
4: make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy,
opponent, or a target; "The Germans struck Poland on Sept. 1,
1939"; "We must strike the enemy's oil fields"; "in the fifth
inning, the Giants struck, sending three runners home to win
the game 5 to 2" [syn: strike, hit]
5: indicate (a certain time) by striking; "The clock struck
midnight"; "Just when I entered, the clock struck"
6: affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely; "We were hit
by really bad weather"; "He was stricken with cancer when he
was still a teenager"; "The earthquake struck at midnight"
[syn: hit, strike]
7: stop work in order to press demands; "The auto workers are
striking for higher wages"; "The employees walked out when
their demand for better benefits was not met" [syn: strike,
walk out]
8: touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly; "Light fell
on her face"; "The sun shone on the fields"; "The light
struck the golden necklace"; "A strange sound struck my ears"
[syn: fall, shine, strike]
9: attain; "The horse finally struck a pace" [syn: come to,
strike]
10: produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical
instruments, also metaphorically; "The pianist strikes a
middle C"; "strike `z' on the keyboard"; "her comments
struck a sour note" [syn: strike, hit]
11: cause to form (an electric arc) between electrodes of an arc
lamp; "strike an arc"
12: find unexpectedly; "the archeologists chanced upon an old
tomb"; "she struck a goldmine"; "The hikers finally struck
the main path to the lake" [syn: fall upon, strike,
come upon, light upon, chance upon, come across,
chance on, happen upon, attain, discover]
13: produce by ignition or a blow; "strike fire from the
flintstone"; "strike a match"
14: remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a
line; "Please strike this remark from the record"; "scratch
that remark" [syn: strike, scratch, expunge, excise]
15: cause to experience suddenly; "Panic struck me"; "An
interesting idea hit her"; "A thought came to me"; "The
thought struck terror in our minds"; "They were struck with
fear" [syn: hit, strike, come to]
16: drive something violently into a location; "he hit his fist
on the table"; "she struck her head on the low ceiling"
[syn: hit, strike]
17: occupy or take on; "He assumes the lotus position"; "She
took her seat on the stage"; "We took our seats in the
orchestra"; "She took up her position behind the tree";
"strike a pose" [syn: assume, take, strike, take up]
18: form by stamping, punching, or printing; "strike coins";
"strike a medal" [syn: mint, coin, strike]
19: smooth with a strickle; "strickle the grain in the measure"
[syn: strickle, strike]
20: pierce with force; "The bullet struck her thigh"; "The icy
wind struck through our coats"
21: arrive at after reckoning, deliberating, and weighing;
"strike a balance"; "strike a bargain"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
567 Moby Thesaurus words for "strike":
abbreviate, abridge, administer, adopt, advance against,
advance upon, affect, afflict, aggravated assault, aggression,
agree on, aim, ambush, amphibious attack, arise, armed assault,
arrest, arrest the thoughts, arrive at, assail, assailing,
assailment, assault, assume, attack, attain, bang, bang into,
banzai attack, bash, bat, batter, bear down upon, beat, beef,
belabor, bell, belt, beset, biff, birch, bitch, blitz, blitzkrieg,
blot out, blow it, bludgeon, blue-pencil, boggle, bonk, bop,
bowdlerize, box, box the ears, boycott, boycottage, breakthrough,
bring out, bringing to light, buffet, bump, bump into, bushwhack,
call a strike, call in question, call it quits, cancel, cane,
cannon, carom, carom into, carry, casual discovery, catch,
catch the thoughts, catching, censor, challenge, chance discovery,
chance upon, charge, check, checkmate, clap, clash, clip, clobber,
close down, close shop, clout, club, clump, cock, coldcock,
collide, come a cropper, come across, come at, come down on,
come home to, come into collision, come to, come to mind,
come up with, complain, complaint, compunction, conclude, concuss,
confirm, confront each other, conjure up, conk, contrive,
counterattack, counteroffensive, coup de main, crack,
crack down on, crack up, crash, crash into, cripple,
crippling attack, cross out, crown, crump, crunch, cry out against,
cudgel, cuff, cut, cutoff, dash, dash into, dawn on, dawn upon one,
dead set at, dead stop, deadlock, deal, deal a blow, deck, delete,
deliver, demonstrate, demonstrate against, demonstration, demur,
demurrer, descend on, descend upon, descent on, detection,
determination, determine, determining, detonate, devise, ding,
direct, disable, discharge, disclosure, discover, discovery,
dismantle, display, dispute, distinguishment, diversion,
diversionary attack, dream up, drive, drop, edit, edit out, eject,
eliminate, encounter, end, endgame, ending, engrave,
enter a protest, eradicate, erase, espial, excavation, exception,
excruciate, exhumation, expostulate, expostulation, exposure,
expunge, expurgate, fail, fall, fall foul of, fall on, fall upon,
feign, fell, fetch, fetch a blow, final whistle, find, find out,
finding, finding out, fire, fire off, flank, flank attack, flog,
flop, foul, frontal attack, full stop, gang up on, gas, gas attack,
get, get nowhere, get out, go at, go for, go into, go on strike,
go out, goal, grab, grab one, grand slam, grievance,
grievance committee, grinding halt, gun, gun for, halt, hammer,
harrow, harry, have at, head-on attack, hectograph, hit,
hit a clip, hit against, hit like lightning, hit the mark,
hit upon, hold out, hole, hole in one, holler, home run, homer,
horsewhip, howl, hunt down, hurt, hurtle, ignite, impact, impinge,
implant, impress, impress forcibly, imprint, improvise,
incapacitate, indignation meeting, indispose, induce, infiltrate,
infiltration, inflict, influence, inspire, insurge, insurrect,
invalid, invent, invention, issue, jab, job action, jump, kick,
kill, knock, knock against, knock cold, knock down, knock off,
knock out, lambaste, land on, lash, launch an attack, lay at,
lay hands on, lay into, lay off, let fly, let have it, let off,
light, light into, lightning attack, lightning war, load, locate,
locating, location, lock out, lockout, lucky strike, mace, make,
make an impression, march, march against, march upon, martyr,
mass attack, meet, megadeath, mimeograph, mint, miss the boat,
mount an attack, mount the barricades, move, mug, mugging,
multigraph, mutineer, mutiny, nail, nonviolent protest, object,
objection, obliterate, occur, occur to, offense, offensive,
offer itself, omit, onset, onslaught, open an offensive,
outlaw strike, overkill, overprint, overthrow, panzer warfare,
paste, pelt, pepper, percuss, pick off, picket, picketing, pistol,
pitch into, plug, plunk, poke, pommel, pop, pot, potshoot, potshot,
pounce upon, pound, present itself, press objections, prime, print,
proof, protest, protest demonstration, protestation, prove,
publish, puck, pull, pull a proof, pummel, punch, push, put on,
put out, put to bed, put to press, qualm, rack, raise a howl,
rally, ratify, reach, rebel, recognition, rediscover, rediscovery,
register with, reissue, reluct, reluctate, remonstrance,
remonstrate, remonstration, remove, reprint, rescind, revelation,
revolt, revolute, revolution, revolutionize, riddle, riot, rise,
rise to mind, rise up, rock, rub out, rulebook slowdown, run,
run against, run at, run down, run into, run off, run riot,
run to earth, rush, sail into, sally, score, scourge, scratch,
scruple, secure, serendipity, set on, set upon, settle on,
shock tactics, shoot, shoot at, shoot down, shut down,
shut it down, shut up shop, sick-in, sideswipe, sink in, sit down,
sit in, sit-down, sit-down strike, sit-in, slam, slam into, slap,
slap the face, slat, slog, slosh, slow down, slowdown, slug, smack,
smack into, smash, smash into, smash up, smite, snap, snipe, soak,
sock, sortie, spotting, squawk, stalemate, stamp, stand, standoff,
standstill, state a grievance, stay, stick out, stop, stoppage,
storm, strike against, strike at, strike hard, strike home,
strike off, strike out, strike the mind, strike up, stumble on,
subvert, suggest itself, surprise, swap, swat, sway, swipe,
swoop down on, sympathy strike, take, take a potshot, take apart,
take away, take on, take the offensive, teach in, teach-in, tell,
thrash, thrust, thump, thwack, tie-up, torment, torpedo, torture,
touch, touchdown, trace, trace down, track down, traumatize,
treasure trove, trouvaille, trove, try, turnout, uncovering,
unearthing, unprovoked assault, void, wade into, walk out, walkout,
wallop, whack, wham, whip, whomp, whop, wildcat strike, wipe out,
work out, work stoppage, wring, yell bloody murder, yerk