strike+upon

  • 1strike upon — phrasal verb [transitive] Word forms strike upon : present tense I/you/we/they strike upon he/she/it strikes upon present participle striking upon past tense struck upon past participle struck upon same as strike on 1) I recently struck upon an… …

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  • 2strike upon — …

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  • 3strike on — phrasal verb strike on or strike upon Word forms strike on : present tense I/you/we/they strike on he/she/it strikes on present participle striking on past tense struck on past participle struck on 1) strike on/upon something [transitive] to find …

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  • 4strike */*/*/ — I UK [straɪk] / US verb Word forms strike : present tense I/you/we/they strike he/she/it strikes present participle striking past tense struck UK [strʌk] / US past participle struck 1) [intransitive/transitive] formal to hit against, or to crash… …

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  • 5strike — v. & n. v. (past struck; past part. struck or archaic stricken) 1 a tr. subject to an impact. b tr. deliver (a blow) or inflict a blow on. 2 tr. come or bring sharply into contact with (the ship struck a rock). 3 tr. propel or divert with a blow… …

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  • 6strike — [strīk] vt. struck, struck or occas. (but for vt. 11 commonly and for vt. 8 & 15 usually) stricken, striking, [ME striken, to proceed, flow, strike with rod or sword < OE strican, to go, proceed, advance, akin to Ger streichen < IE * streig …

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  • 7Strike — 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[=i]can to go, proceed,… …

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  • 8strike — [v1] hit hard bang, bash, beat, boff, bonk, box, buffet, bump into, chastise, clash, clobber, clout, collide, conk*, crash, cuff*, drive, force, hammer, impel, knock, percuss, plant*, pop*, pound, pummel, punch, punish, run into, slap, slug,… …

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  • 9strike — 1 vb struck, struck, also, strick·en, strik·ing vi 1: to remove or delete something 2: to stop work in order to force an employer to comply with demands vt 1: to remove or delete from a legal document a …

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  • 10strike on/upon — [phrasal verb] 1 strike on/upon (something) not used in progressive tenses : to find or discover (something) especially suddenly He struck on an idea for his novel. They struck upon a salt mine. 2 be struck on Brit, i …

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