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(informal) A dismissal or rejection.
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(transitive, intransitive, Internet slang) To kill or murder; to cause the untimely demise of someone.
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(literally) To convert military technologies to peaceful civilian applications.
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Alternative spelling of coup de grâce [A final blow or shot given to kill a wounded person or animal.]
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A line that is drawn with a downward stroke.
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A finishing stroke; coup de grâce.
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(transitive, slang, computing) To make high demands on (a system or service).
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Alternative form of highstrikes
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(transitive) To administer a blow to, directly or with a weapon or missile.
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(law) The crime of causing an accident, as with a motor vehicle, and leaving without acknowledging responsibility.
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Alternative form of wave the white flag [(in military combat) To indicate to an opposing force that one is surrendering.]
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Alternative form of knock on the door of [To ask for entrance or admission into.]
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(military, slang) An attack or damage inflicted by a weapon that does not destroy a military vehicle but results in it taking no further part in its intended mission.
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(boxing, transitive) To box better than.
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(informal) To keep working at something
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(transitive) To remove or acquire by plucking from, for example, the ground; to pick up.
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(slang) To clean up spent shell casings left behind after firing a gun, usually so the casings cannot be used to identify the gun.
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(intransitive) To leap into the air intending to seize someone or something.
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To unite in order to support one's country, especially during a crisis or war.
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(transitive) To strike someone with a sandbag or other object to disable or render unconscious.
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To strike out or cross out; to draw a line through one or more written words
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Alternative form of wave the white flag [(in military combat) To indicate to an opposing force that one is surrendering.]
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(archaic) To hit; to strike.
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To raise objections; to argue stubbornly, especially over minor or trivial matters.
adj
(informal) Sticking up or tending to stick up; sticky-uppy.
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(transitive) To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
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(figuratively) To do something to support or defend (for) or to hinder or harm (at / against) something.
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(idiomatic) To create a flame (using a match, flint, etc.).
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(archaic) To hit (especially with a sword); to successfully land a hit.
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(obsolete) To be or act in harmony (with something).
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Alternative form of strike one's flag [(military, especially naval) To take down one's national or other representative flag in order to indicate surrender.]
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(military, especially naval) To take down one's national or other representative flag in order to indicate surrender.
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(intransitive, often with at) To lash out; to strike or hit at someone or something, particularly something in arm's length of the striker and at or near the level of the striker's head.
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Alternative form of strike one's flag [(military, especially naval) To take down one's national or other representative flag in order to indicate surrender.]
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Alternative form of strike one's flag [(military, especially naval) To take down one's national or other representative flag in order to indicate surrender.]
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Alternative form of strike while the iron is hot [(metallurgy, blacksmithing, literally) To strike a hot piece of metal, especially iron, with a mallet or other tool before it cools, while it is still hot enough to be shaped.]
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(idiomatic, by extension) To yield, give up, or surrender.
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(metallurgy, blacksmithing, literally) To strike a hot piece of metal, especially iron, with a mallet or other tool before it cools, while it is still hot enough to be shaped.
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(dated, India) To go on strike.
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The recipient of a strike, especially a physical blow; one who has been struck.
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(soccer, figuratively) Collectively, the strikers in a team.
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Resembling or characteristic of a strike (industrial action).
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An individual who is on strike.
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An act of striking with a weapon; a blow.
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(idiomatic, singular only) A small amount of work.
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(obsolete) simple past tense of strike
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a military attack of closely-controlled scope on a highly specific target
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(transitive, obsolete) To hit, to strike.
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Synonym of stroke of work
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(US, informal) Any quick, decisive stroke or act.
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(in military combat) To indicate to an opposing force that one is surrendering.
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A heavy steel ball, usually hung from a crane, that is used for demolishing large buildings.
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(transitive, figuratively) To distort, to pervert, to twist.
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