Crossword-Solution: STROKE 6 letters, 123 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Stroke	imp.	Struck.
Stroke	v. t.	The act of striking; a blow; a hit; a knock; esp., a violent or hostile attack made with the arm or hand, or with an instrument or weapon.
Stroke	v. t.	The result of effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness.
Stroke	v. t.	The striking of the clock to tell the hour.
Stroke	v. t.	A gentle, caressing touch or movement upon something; a stroking.
Stroke	v. t.	A mark or dash in writing or printing; a line; the touch of a pen or pencil; as, an up stroke; a firm stroke.
Stroke	v. t.	Hence, by extension, an addition or amandment to a written composition; a touch; as, to give some finishing strokes to an essay.
Stroke	v. t.	A sudden attack of disease; especially, a fatal attack; a severe disaster; any affliction or calamity, especially a sudden one; as, a stroke of apoplexy; the stroke of death.
Stroke	v. t.	A throb or beat, as of the heart.
Stroke	v. t.	One of a series of beats or movements against a resisting medium, by means of which movement through or upon it is accomplished; as, the stroke of a bird's wing in flying, or an oar in rowing, of a skater, swimmer, etc.
Stroke	v. t.	The rate of succession of stroke; as, a quick stroke.
Stroke	v. t.	The oar nearest the stern of a boat, by which the other oars are guided; -- called also stroke oar.
Stroke	v. t.	The rower who pulls the stroke oar; the strokesman.
Stroke	v. t.	A powerful or sudden effort by which something is done, produced, or accomplished; also, something done or accomplished by such an effort; as, a stroke of genius; a stroke of business; a master stroke of policy.
Stroke	v. t.	The movement, in either direction, of the piston plunger, piston rod, crosshead, etc., as of a steam engine or a pump, in which these parts have a reciprocating motion; as, the forward stroke of a piston; also, the entire distance passed through, as by a piston, in such a movement; as, the piston is at half stroke.
Stroke	v. t.	Power; influence.
Stroke	v. t.	Appetite.
Stroke	v. t.	To strike.
Stroke	v. t.	To rib gently in one direction; especially, to pass the hand gently over by way of expressing kindness or tenderness; to caress; to soothe.
Stroke	v. t.	To make smooth by rubbing.
Stroke	v. t.	To give a finely fluted surface to.
Stroke	v. t.	To row the stroke oar of; as, to stroke a boat.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
STROKE	anagram	STOKER, TOKERS

We have 123 clues for the answer “STROKE”

Clue	Answers
A hit in tennis	1 answer
Action in tennis, swimming and golf	1 answer
Any drive or putt, in golf	1 answer
Backhand or forehand, e.g.	1 answer
Swim technique or medical emergency	1 answer
Brush mark	1 answer
Butterfly or crawl, in swimming	1 answer
CEREBRAL thrombosis	1 answer
CEREBROVASCULAR accident	1 answer
Canoe crew motion	1 answer
Cause of a bong or dong	1 answer
Chip or pitch	1 answer
Chip or putt	1 answer
Chip shot or putt	1 answer
Cox cry	1 answer
Cox's call	1 answer
Coxswain s call	1 answer
Coxswain's call	1 answer
Crawl or butterfly	1 answer
Crawl or butterfly, e.g.	1 answer
Crawl or trudgen.	1 answer
Crew direction	1 answer
Crew team member nearest the stern	1 answer
Difference between eagle and birdie	1 answer
Drive or chip	1 answer
Flatter, as an ego	1 answer
Golf putt, for example	1 answer
Golf swing	1 answer
Golfer's hit	1 answer
HIGH blood pressure danger	1 answer
Gentle caress or a painter's line	1 answer
Hitting of a golf ball	1 answer
It might be a wedge issue?	1 answer
It precedes "Substituted Ball" in the Definitions section of the "Rules of Golf"	1 answer
Lob or putt	1 answer
Lob or smash	1 answer
Member of a varsity eight.	1 answer
One of four on a par-4	1 answer
Painter's motion	1 answer
Pamper, as somebody's ego	1 answer
Piston motion	1 answer
Power in a racing shell.	1 answer
Putt, for instance	1 answer
Putt-Putt putt	1 answer
Rower's motion	1 answer
Rub lightly	1 answer
Scoring unit, in golf	1 answer
Single act, as of genius	1 answer
Stern man in a shell	1 answer
Stern one in a shell	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

AREET

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Unscramble STROKE 6-letter words that start with S 6-letter words that end in E 6-letter words containing TR 6-letter words containing KE 6-letter words with S and T

Sentences with STROKE (5)

Nor did _Israel_ scape Th’ infection when their borrow’d Gold compos’d The Calf in _Oreb_: and the Rebel King Doubl’d that sin in _Bethel_ and in _Dan_, Lik’ning his Maker to the Grazed Ox, _Jehovah_, who in one Night when he pass’d From _Egypt_ marching, equal’d with one stroke Both her first born and all her bleating Gods.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

Shoot, shoot,—and be damned! _I won’t be tied!_” This he said in a tone of loud defiance; and at the same time, with a motion as quick as lightning, he with one single stroke dashed the pistols from the hand of each constable.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992

Then one of them stooped down to stroke it, but the Serpent raised its head and put out its fangs and was about to sting the child to death.

The Fables of Aesop Aesop 1992

Yet was I quits with him and more; one stroke Of my good staff sufficed to fling him clean Out of the chariot seat and laid him prone.

The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000

Weeks, it is true, would sometimes elapse, during which Pearl’s gaze might never once be fixed upon the scarlet letter; but then, again, it would come at unawares, like the stroke of sudden death, and always with that peculiar smile and odd expression of the eyes.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

Quotes with STROKE (3)

And I want to play hide-and-seek and give you my clothes and tell you I like your shoes and sit on the steps while you take a bath and massage your neck and kiss your feet and hold your hand and go for a meal and not mind when you eat my food and meet you at Rudy's and talk about the day and type up your letters and carry your boxes and laugh at your paranoia and give you tapes you don't listen to and watch great films and watch terrible films and complain about the radio and…

Sarah Kane Crave

One salutary development in recent ethical theorizing is the widespread recognition that no short argument will serve to eliminate any of the major metaethical positions. Such theories have to weave together views in semantics, epistemology, moral psychology and metaphysics. The comprehensive, holistic character of much recent theorizing suggests the futility of fastening on just a single sort of argument to refute a developed version of realism or antirealism. No one any lon…

Russ Shafer-Landau

For the unified mind in accord with the Way all self-centered striving ceases. Doubts and irresolutions vanish and life in true faith is possible. With a single stroke we are freed from bondage; nothing clings to us and we hold nothing. All is empty, clear, self-illuminating, with no exertion of the mind's power.

Sengcan Hsin Hsin Ming

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 85 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).