Strike Out

Definition: Strike Out

Strike Out

Verb

1. Remove from a list; "Cross the name of the dead person off the list".

2. Put out or be put out by a strikeout; "Oral struck out three batters to close the inning".

3. Be unsuccessful in an endeavor; "The candidate struck out with his health care plan".

4. Pitch three strikes and put the batter out; "The pitcher walked two and struck out three".

5. Set out on a course of action; "He struck out on his own".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Strike Out

Destruction

Smash, crash, quell, squash, squelch, crumple up, shatter, shiver; batter to pieces, tear to pieces, crush to pieces, cut to pieces, shake to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces; laniate; nip; tear to rags, tear to tatters; crush to atoms, knock to atoms; ruin; strike out; throw over, knock down over; fell, sink, swamp, scuttle, wreck, shipwreck, engulf, ingulf, submerge; lay in ashes, lay in ruins; sweep away, erase, wipe out, expunge, raze; level with the dust, level with the ground; waste; atomize, vaporize.

Exclusion

Xclude, bar; leave out, shut out, bar out; reject, repudiate, blackball; lay apart, put apart, set apart, lay aside, put aside; relegate, segregate; throw overboard; strike off, strike out; neglect; banish; (seclude); separate.; (disjoin).

Imagination

Create, originate, devise, invent, coin, fabricate; improvise, strike out something new.

Obliteration

Verb: efface, obliterate, erase, raze, rase, expunge, cancel; blot out, take out, rub out, scratch out, strike out, wipe out, wash out, sponge out; wipe off, rub off; wipe away; deface, render illegible; draw the pen through, apply the sponge.

Plan

Verb: plan,scheme, design, frame, contrive, project, forecast, sketch; devise, invent; (imagine); set one's wits to work; spring a project; fall upon, hit upon; strike out, chalk out, cut out, lay out, map out; lay down a plan; shape out a course, mark out a course; predetermine; concert, preconcert, preestablish; prepare; hatch, hatch a plot concoct; take steps, take measures.

Revolution

Verb: revolutionize; new model, remodel, recast; strike out something new, break with the past; change the face of, unsex.

Crosswords: Strike Out

His profile, uh, well, he he's likely to strike out at the things that made him the most human. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

Oh God. Please Don't Let Me Strike Out (1993)

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Books

• Aqui Viene El Que Se Poncha!: Here Comes the Strike Out (reference)

• Strike Out Where Not App (reference)

• Strike Out! (The Leftovers, No 1) (reference)

• Summer Strike Out (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Strike out. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Strike two! Help strike out military autocracy! Every Liberty Bond you buy helps win the war. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

They also may fling objects across the room or strike out at walls or furniture as though they are angry or afraid. (references)

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Expressions using "strike out": strike out at ♦ strike out for ♦ strike out for the shore ♦ strike out something new ♦ To strike out. Additional references.

Albanian

shpik (coin, concoct, contrive, devise, fabricate, invent, weave), sajoj (coin, concoct, cook, cook up, counterfeit, devise, engineer, excogitate, fabricate, invent, lay out, patch up, prefabricate, think up, toss up, vamp, weave), drejtohem (accost, call on, destine, move, refer, resort, straighten, wend, wend one's way). (various references)

Arabic 

شَطّبَ (to strike out). (various references)

Bulgarian 

замахвам по (strike out at), заплувам енергично (strike out for). (various references)

Czech

puèet (bud, spindle, spring, sprout). (various references)

Danish

stryge (caress, chuck, fondle, stroke), gennemstrege (cross out, delete, to blue pencil, use the blue pencil). (various references)

Dutch

schrappen (cross out, scrape, scratch), doorhalen (cross out). (various references)

Esperanto

forstreki (cross out). (various references)

Finnish

viivata yli, pyyhkiä (cancel, cross out, delete, dry, mop, wipe, wipe off), poistaa (abolish, deduct, delete, do away with, eliminate, exclude, remove, take out, withdraw, write off). (various references)

French

rayer (strike, stripe), biffer (strike, stroke). (various references)

German

tilgen (amortize, compound, delete, erase, exterminate, liquidate, obliterate, pay off, redeem, satisfy, to amortize, to obliterate, to pay off, wear away, wipe out), durchstreichen (score out, score through), ausstreichen (blue pencil, cancel, cross out, delete, efface, expunge, grease, obliterate, score off, score out, score through, scratch out, smooth out, smooth over, spread out, to scratch out, to strike out). (various references)

Greek 

εξαλείφω (blot out, delete, efface, eliminate, eradicate, erase, expunge, obliterate, rub out, wipe out). (various references)

Hebrew 

למחוק (cancel, cross out, delete, efface, erase, raze, rub out, rubber, strike off, wipe out, write off), ל�"חטיב (erase). (various references)

Hungarian

rájön (be found out, find out, perceive, to discover where the hitch is, to get into the way of doing sg, to get on to sg, to perceive, to realize, to strike out, to tumble to), kitöröl (block out, efface, erase, expunge, obliterate, to blot, to blot out, to disfigure, to excise, to obliterate, to raze, to strike out, to wipe out, wipe out), kihúz (cross out, delete, drag out, draw out, get out, obliterate, protract, pull off, pull out, score out, scratch out, spin out, to delete, to educe, to excise, to extract, to extricate, to line through, to obliterate, to protract, to pull out, to pull up, to rive sg away, to rive sg off, to unclench, to unclinch). (various references)

Italian

cancellare (blot, cancel, cross out, delete, efface, erase, expunge, extinguish, obliterate, rub off, rub out, score off, scratch out, stop, strike off, wipe out, zap). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

三振 (fanning out). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さ�"し�" (fanning out, second postscript). (various references)

Manx

scryssey (cancel, cancellation; growl, eliminate, elimination, erase, forage, grin, pare down, rub out, scrap, scrape, scrape away, scraping, scratch, shave, sneer, wipe out, write off), fosley (answer, answer door, broach as cargo; overture, broach; overture, burst, develop, disclose, disillusion, explode, introduction, lane, lane in ice field, open, open out, open up, opening, orifice, passage, placket hole, slit, unbosom, unclench, unhook, unhook as clothing). (various references)

Pig Latin

ikestray outay

Portuguese

suprimir (burke, crush, cut, dele, dissolve, eliminate, exterminate, fade away, knock out, liquidate, obliterate, prune, put down, quash, quell, smother, stop, suppress, throttle, wipe out), riscar (blue-pencil, dele, delete, line, run through, score, scratch, scribe), raspar (abrade, bark, blot, bream, delete, erase, fray, grate, rasp, rub, scrabble, scrape, scrape off, scratch, scuff, shave, skive), excluir (bar, bar from, bar out, barrier off, debar, delete, except, exclude, exscind, foreclose, preclude, reserve, rule out, seclude, shut off), cortar (bite, chaff, chip, chop, clip, crop, curtail, cut, cut down, cut off, delete, detruncate, fell, gash, gouge, hack, hackle, hand back, hew, hew down, incise, indent, interrupt, intersect, let by, log, lop, lumber, mow, poll, pollard, sever, shave, shear, slice, slit, strike off, whittle), atacar (assail, assault, attack, bayonet, charge, come upon, emote, hammer, invade, lunge, mob, mug, oppugn, prey, rocket, run at, strike), anular (abjure, abolish, abrogate, annul, annular, cancel, countermand, cross out, defeat, delete, disaffirm, disannul, dissolve, irritate, negate, neutralize, nullify, off, overrule, quash, recall, remit, repeal, rescind, reverse, revoke, ring finger, ringed, rip up, set aside). (various references)

Romanian

scoate (abstract, banish, bring out, brood, chase away, concoct, deduce, delete, deliver, dig, discharge, dismiss, draw out, drive away, edit, elicit, emit, exhaust, expel, extort, extract, extrude, fabricate, get on, give out, gouge, gut, hatch, heave, issue, let out, obtain, produce, publish, pull off, pull out, put off, put out, quarry, realize, remove, sap, save, scoop, strip, take off, take out, utter), tãia (amputate, ax, axe, butcher, cancel, carve, carve out, castrate, chop, clap, cleave, clip, crop, cross, Curdle, cut, cut on the bias, Dent, dissect, engrave, excise, exscind, fell, flench, foul, grave, hew, incise, intercept, kill, measure off, notch, notch off, pare, plough, prune, quarter, resect, rip, Rive, separate, sever, shear, shorten, shut the works down, slaughter, slay, slice, snick, split, Square, stop, switch off), radia (beam, glow, kindle, radiate, Ray), şterge (abrade, annex, annihilate, annul, blot out, bunk, cancel, clean, cop, crib, decamp, deface, delete, dim, do a bunk, dry, dull, efface, erase, expunge, filch, guy, make away, make off, mop, obliterate, pack off, pack one's traps, pop off, quit, raze, remove, scratch, shrink away, sweep, vanish, wipe). (various references)

Russian 

вычеркивать (black out, blue-pencil, cancel, cross off, cross out, delete, efface, expunge, expurgate, kill, line through, obliterate, raze, score out, scratch, scratch out, strike off), направляться (go for, head, make for, repair, sashay, wend one's way, zeroing), зачеркивать (line through). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

izbrisati (delete, expunge, obliterate, red pencil, rub out, score out, scratch, scratch off, scratch out, strike, strike off, wipe out). (various references)

Spanish

tachar (blank, cross out, delete, fault, remove), borrar (cross out, delete, destroy, dim, efface, erase, expunge, expurgate, obliterate, rub out, scratch, scratch out, strike off, wipe out, write away, write off, zap). (various references)

Swedish

ge sig i väg (make away, make off, push along, put, quit, scram, set off). (various references)

Turkish

silmek (blank, blot out, cancel, cross out, Dele, delete, efface, erase, expunge, forgive, furbish, give smth. a wipe, obliterate, rub down, rub off, rub out, rule out, rule smth. out, strike off, whisk, wipe, wipe away, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up, write off), yola koyulmak (cut along, set forth, take one's way, trot along, trot off, wend one's way), yüzmek (bathe, flinch, float, go for a swim, ride, shave, swim), takibetmek, kulaç atmak, icat etmek (cogitate, contrive, devise, dream up, father, invent, mint, originate), gitmek (apply, betake oneself to, bugger off, depart, fare, give, go, go away, go together, head, head for, hop it, hop off, repair, resort, roll, run, steer for, step, take one's way, take to, to go, turn to, wend one's way, work in with), buluş yapmak, bulmak (ascertain, clear up, cogitate, contrive, devise, discover, find, go for, happen on, happen upon, hit, invent, meet, obtain, procure, provide with, reach, reason, strike, study out, turn up), üzerini çizmek (rule smth. out, strike off). (various references)

Ukrainian

накидатися (assail, bounce at, fall on, lay into, pitch into, sail into, set at). (various references)

elidere, excussio. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: strikeout.

-1 letter: outskirt.

-2 letters: outsert, skitter, stourie, stouter, tourist, touters, turkois.

-3 letters: kiters, otters, ouster, outers, outset, outsit, rottes, routes, setout, sitter, sortie, souter, stoker, stoure, strike, stroke, suiter, suitor, titers, titres, tokers, tories, tortes, toters, touter, trikes, triose, triste, trokes, trouts, truest, tusker, tutors, utters.

-4 letters: etuis, euros, keirs, kiers, kiter, kites, osier, otter, ourie.

+1 letter: strikeouts.

+4 letters: counterstrike.

+5 letters: counterpickets, counterstrikes.