used in combination Affected by something overwhelming:
— Awe-struck.

synoniemen: smitten, stricken.

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.

synoniem: work stoppage.

Roget 742: disobedience, insubordination, contumacy; infraction, infringement; violation, noncompliance; nonobservance etc. 773.    revolt, rebellion, mutiny, outbreak, rising, uprising, insurrection, emeute [Fr.]; riot, tumult etc. (disorder) 59; strike etc. (resistance) 719; barring out; defiance etc. 715.    mutinousness etc. adj.; mutineering^†; sedition, treason; high treason, petty treason, misprision of treason; premunire [Lat.]; lese majeste [Fr.]; violation of law etc. 964; defection, secession.    insurgent, mutineer, rebel, revolter, revolutionary, rioter, traitor, quisling, carbonaro^†, sansculottes [Fr.], red republican, bonnet rouge, communist, Fenian, frondeur; seceder, secessionist, runagate, renegade, brawler, anarchist, demagogue; Spartacus, Masaniello, Wat Tyler, Jack Cade; ringleader.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 719: resistance, stand, front, oppugnation^†; oppugnancy^†; opposition etc. 708; renitence^†, renitency; reluctation^†, recalcitration^†; kicking etc. v.. repulse, rebuff.    insurrection etc. (disobedience) 742; strike; turn out, lock out, barring out; levee en masse [Fr.], Jacquerie; riot etc. (disorder) 59.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: staking, werkonderbreking
Pools: strajk

An attack that is intended to seize or inflict damage on or destroy an objective.

Pools: tusz

A gentle blow.

synoniemen: rap, tap.

A score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball:
— He finished with three strikes in the tenth frame.

synoniem: ten-strike.

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.

A conspicuous success.

synoniemen: bang, hit, smash, smasher.

Nederlands: klapper, knaller, succes, topper
Pools: hit, przebój

Deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon.

Roget 170: be in action etc. adj.; operate, work; act, act upon; perform, play, support, sustain, strain, maintain, take effect, quicken, strike.    come play, come bring into operation; have play, have free play; bring to bear upon.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 870: wonder, marvel, admire; be surprised etc. adj.; start; stare; open one's eyes, rub one's eyes, turn up one's eyes; gloar^†; gape, open one's mouth, hold one's breath; look aghast, stand aghast, stand agog; look blank etc. (disappointment) 509; tombe des nues [Fr.]; not believe one's eyes, not believe one's ears, not believe one's senses.    not be able to account for etc. (unintelligible) 519; not know whether one stands on one's head or one's not know whether one stands on one's head or one's heels.    surprise, astonish, amaze, astound; dumfound, dumfounder; startle, dazzle; daze; strike, strike with wonder, strike with awe; electrify; stun, stupefy, petrify, confound, bewilder, flabbergast, stagger, throw on one's beam ends, fascinate, turn the head, take away one's breath, strike dumb; make one's hair stand on end, make one's tongue cleave to the roof of one's make one's tongue cleave to the roof of one's mouth; make one stare.    take by surprise etc. (be unexpected) 508.    be wonderful etc. adj.; beggar description, beggar the imagination, baffle description; stagger belief.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 972: punish; chastise, chasten; castigate, correct, inflict punishment, administer correction, deal retributive justice; cowhide, lambaste [Slang].    visit upon, pay; pay out, serve out; do for; make short work of, give a lesson to, serve one right, make an example of; have a rod in pickle for; give it one.    strike etc. 276; deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite; slap, slap the face; smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge^†, buffet; thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor; lace, lace one's jacket; dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund^†, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate^†, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue; beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly; give a black eye.    tar and feather; pelt, stone, lapidate^†; masthead, keelhaul.    execute; bring to the block, bring to the gallows; behead, decapitate, guillotine; decollate; hang, turn off, gibbet, bowstring, hang draw and quarter; shoot; decimate; burn; break on the wheel, crucify; empale^†, impale; flay; lynch; electrocute; gas, send to the gas chamber.    torture; put on, put to the rack; picket.    banish, exile, transport, expel, ostracize; rusticate; drum out; dismiss, disbar, disbench^†; strike off the roll, unfrock; post.    suffer, suffer for, suffer punishment; be flogged.    be executed, suffer the ultimate penalty; be hanged &c.; come to the gallows, mount the gallows, swing [Coll.], twist in the wind, dance upon nothing, die in one's shoes; be rightly served; be electrocuted, fry [Coll.], ride the lightning [Coll.]; face the firing squad.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 742: disobey, violate, infringe; shirk; set at defiance etc. (defy) 715; set authority at naught, run riot, fly in the face of; take the law into one's own hands; kick over the traces.    turn restive, run restive; champ the bit; strike etc. (resist) 719; rise, rise in arms; secede; mutiny, rebel.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 719: resist; not submit etc. 725; repugn^†, reluct, reluctate^†, withstand; stand up against, strive against, bear up under, bear up against, be proof against, make head against; stand, stand firm, stand one's ground, stand the brunt of, stand out; hold one's grounds, hold one's own, hold out, hold firm.    breast the wave, breast the current; stem the tide, stem the torrent; face, confront, grapple with; show a bold front etc. (courage) 861; present a front; make a stand, take one's stand.    kick, kick against; recalcitrate^†, kick against the pricks; oppose etc. 708; fly in the face of; lift the hand against etc. (attack) 716; rise up in arms etc. (war) 722; strike, turn out; draw up a round robin etc. (remonstrate) 932; revolt etc. (disobey) 742; make a riot.    prendre le mors aux dents [Fr.], take the bit between the teeth; sell one's life dearly, die hard, keep at bay; repel, repulse.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: slaan

Have an emotional or cognitive impact upon.

synoniemen: affect, impress, move.

Roget 824: excite, affect, touch, move, impress, strike, interest, animate, inspire, impassion, smite, infect; stir the blood, fire the blood, warm the blood; set astir; wake, awake, awaken; call forth; evoke, provoke; raise up, summon up, call up, wake up, blow up, get up, light up; raise; get up the steam, rouse, arouse, stir; fire, kindle, enkindle, apply the torch, set on fire, inflame.    stimulate; exsuscitate^†; inspirit; spirit up, stir up, work up, pique; infuse life into, give new life to; bring new blood, introduce new blood; quicken; sharpen, whet; work upon etc. (incite) 615; hurry on, give a fillip, put on one's mettle.    fan the fire, fan the flame; blow the coals, stir the embers; fan into a flame; foster, heat, warm, foment, raise to a fever heat; keep up, keep the pot boiling; revive, rekindle; rake up, rip up.    stir the feelings, play on the feelings, come home to the feelings; touch a string, touch a chord, touch the soul, touch the heart; go to one's heart, penetrate, pierce, go through one, touch to the quick; possess the soul, pervade the soul, penetrate the soul, imbrue the soul, absorb the soul, affect the soul, disturb the soul.    absorb, rivet the attention; sink into the mind, sink into the heart; prey on the mind, distract; intoxicate; overwhelm, overpower; bouleverser [Fr.], upset, turn one's head.    fascinate; enrapture etc. (give pleasure) 829.    agitate, perturb, ruffle, fluster, shake, disturb, startle, shock, stagger; give one a shock, give one a turn; strike all of a heap; stun, astound, electrify, galvanize, petrify.    irritate, sting; cut to the heart, cut to the quick; try one's temper; fool to the top of one's bent, pique; infuriate, madden, make one's blood boil; lash into fury etc. (wrath) 900.    be excited etc. adj.; flush up, flare up; catch the infection; thrill etc. (feel) 821; mantle; work oneself up; seethe, boil, simmer, foam, fume, flame, rage, rave; run mad etc. (passion) 825.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: draaien, frapperen, inboezemen, treffen

Hit against; come into sudden contact with.

synoniemen: collide with, hit, impinge on, run into.

Roget 276: give an impetus etc. n.; impel, push; start, give a start to, set going; drive, urge, boom; thrust, prod, foin [Fr.]; cant; elbow, shoulder, jostle, justle^†, hustle, hurtle, shove, jog, jolt, encounter; run against, bump against, butt against; knock one's head against, run one's head against; impinge; boost [U.S.]; bunt, carom, clip y; fan, fan out; jab, plug [Slang].    strike, knock, hit, tap, rap, slap, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash; punch, thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap, batter, dowse^†, baste; pelt, patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow; poke at, pink, lunge, yerk^†; kick, calcitrate^†; butt, strike at etc. (attack) 716; whip etc. (punish) 972.    come into a collision, enter into collision; collide; sideswipe; foul; fall foul of, run foul of; telescope.    throw etc. (propel) 284.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: haalden door, haalde door, treffen, uitwissen

Make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target:
— We must strike the enemy's oil fields.

synoniem: hit.

Indicate (a certain time) by striking.

Affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely.

synoniem: hit.

Stop work in order to press demands.

synoniem: walk out.

Nederlands: staken, doorstrepen

Touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly.

synoniemen: fall, shine.

Attain.

synoniem: come to.

Produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments:
— The pianist strikes a middle C.
— Strike `z' on the keyboard.

synoniem: hit.

Cause to form (an electric arc) between electrodes of an arc lamp.

Find unexpectedly.

synoniemen: attain, chance on, chance upon, come across, come upon, discover, fall upon, happen upon, light upon.

Roget 716: attack, assault, assail; invade; set upon, fall upon; charge, impugn, break a lance with, enter the lists.    assume the offensive, take the offensive; be the aggressor, become the aggressor; strike the first blow, draw first blood, throw the first stone at; lift a hand against, draw the sword against; take up the cudgels; advance against, march against; march upon, harry; come on, show fight.    strike at, poke at, thrust at; aim a blow at, deal a blow at; give one a blow, fetch one a blow, fetch one a kick, give one a kick; have a cut at, have a shot at, take a cut at, take a shot at, have a fling at, have a shy at; be down upon, pounce upon; fall foul of, pitch into, launch out against; bait, slap on the face; make a thrust at, make a pass at, make a set at, make a dead set at; bear down upon.    close with, come to close quarters; bring to bay.    ride full tilt against; attack tooth and nail, go at hammer and tongs.    let fly at, dash at, run a tilt at, rush at, tilt at, run at, fly at, hawk at, have at, let out at; make a dash, make a rush at; strike home; drive one hard; press one hard; be hard upon, run down, strike at the root of.    lay about one, run amuck.    aim at, draw a bead on [U.S.].    fire upon, fire at, fire a shot at; shoot at, pop at, level at, let off a gun at; open fire, pepper, bombard, shell, pour a broadside into; fire a volley, fire red-hot shot; spring a mine.    throw a stone, throw stones at; stone, lapidate^†, pelt; hurl at, hurl against, hurl at the head of; rock beset [U.S.], besiege, beleaguer; lay siege to, invest, open the trenches, plant a battery, sap, mine; storm, board, scale the walls.    cut and thrust, bayonet, butt; kick, strike etc. (impulse) 276; whip etc. (punish) 972.    [attack verbally] assail, impugn; malign (detract) 934.    bomb, rocket, blast.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: aanlopen, aantreffen, opdiepen, opduikelen, opduiken, stoten, stuiten, tegenkomen, toevallen

Produce by ignition or a blow.

Remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line:
— Please strike this remark from the record.

synoniemen: excise, expunge, scratch.

Nederlands: verwijderen, uitwissen

Cause to experience suddenly.

synoniemen: come to, hit.

Drive something violently into a location.

synoniem: hit.

Occupy or take on:
— Strike a pose.

synoniemen: assume, take, take up.

Disassemble a temporary structure, such as a tent or a theatrical set.

Form by stamping, punching, or printing:
— Strike coins.
— Strike a medal.

synoniemen: coin, mint.

Nederlands: slaan

Smooth with a strickle.

synoniem: strickle.

Pierce with force.

Arrive at after reckoning, deliberating, and weighing.

Nederlands: staken