Crossword-Solution: STRIKE 6 letters, 188 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Strike	v. t.	To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument or missile.
Strike	v. t.	To come in collision with; to strike against; as, a bullet struck him; the wave struck the boat amidships; the ship struck a reef.
Strike	v. t.	To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
Strike	v. t.	To stamp or impress with a stroke; to coin; as, to strike coin from metal: to strike dollars at the mint.
Strike	v. t.	To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate; to set in the earth; as, a tree strikes its roots deep.
Strike	v. t.	To punish; to afflict; to smite.
Strike	v. t.	To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes; as, the clock strikes twelve; the drums strike up a march.
Strike	v. t.	To lower; to let or take down; to remove; as, to strike sail; to strike a flag or an ensign, as in token of surrender; to strike a yard or a topmast in a gale; to strike a tent; to strike the centering of an arch.
Strike	v. t.	To make a sudden impression upon, as by a blow; to affect sensibly with some strong emotion; as, to strike the mind, with surprise; to strike one with wonder, alarm, dread, or horror.
Strike	v. t.	To affect in some particular manner by a sudden impression or impulse; as, the plan proposed strikes me favorably; to strike one dead or blind.
Strike	v. t.	To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke; as, to strike a light.
Strike	v. t.	To cause to ignite; as, to strike a match.
Strike	v. t.	To make and ratify; as, to strike a bargain.
Strike	v. t.	To take forcibly or fraudulently; as, to strike money.
Strike	v. t.	To level, as a measure of grain, salt, or the like, by scraping off with a straight instrument what is above the level of the top.
Strike	v. t.	To cut off, as a mortar joint, even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
Strike	v. t.	To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly; as, my eye struck a strange word; they soon struck the trail.
Strike	v. t.	To borrow money of; to make a demand upon; as, he struck a friend for five dollars.
Strike	v. t.	To lade into a cooler, as a liquor.
Strike	v. t.	To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
Strike	v. t.	To advance; to cause to go forward; -- used only in past participle.
Strike	v. i.	To move; to advance; to proceed; to take a course; as, to strike into the fields.
Strike	v. i.	To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
Strike	v. i.	To hit; to collide; to dush; to clash; as, a hammer strikes against the bell of a clock.
Strike	v. i.	To sound by percussion, with blows, or as with blows; to be struck; as, the clock strikes.
Strike	v. i.	To make an attack; to aim a blow.
Strike	v. i.	To touch; to act by appulse.
Strike	v. i.	To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; as, the ship struck in the night.
Strike	v. i.	To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
Strike	v. i.	To break forth; to commence suddenly; -- with into; as, to strike into reputation; to strike into a run.
Strike	v. i.	To lower a flag, or colors, in token of respect, or to signify a surrender of a ship to an enemy.
Strike	v. i.	To quit work in order to compel an increase, or prevent a reduction, of wages.
Strike	v. i.	To become attached to something; -- said of the spat of oysters.
Strike	v. i.	To steal money.
Strike	n.	The act of striking.
Strike	n.	An instrument with a straight edge for leveling a measure of grain, salt, and the like, scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
Strike	n.	A bushel; four pecks.
Strike	n.	An old measure of four bushels.
Strike	n.	Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.
Strike	n.	An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
Strike	n.	The act of quitting work; specifically, such an act by a body of workmen, done as a means of enforcing compliance with demands made on their employer.
Strike	n.	A puddler's stirrer.
Strike	n.	The horizontal direction of the outcropping edges of tilted rocks; or, the direction of a horizontal line supposed to be drawn on the surface of a tilted stratum. It is at right angles to the dip.
Strike	n.	The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmailing.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
STRIKE	anagram	KITERS, TRIKES

We have 188 clues for the answer “STRIKE”

Clue	Answers
"X," to a bowler	1 answer
1/3 of a K	1 answer
1/3 of an out, perhaps	1 answer
Accomplishment in an alley	1 answer
Action authorized by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees in October, 2021	1 answer
Alley X	1 answer
Any sudden success.	1 answer
Ball alternative, in softball	1 answer
Batter's miss	1 answer
Batter's zone	1 answer
Bowler's X	1 answer
Bowler's delight	1 answer
Bowler's hope	1 answer
Bowler's success	1 answer
Bowling or baseball term	1 answer
Bowling shot.	1 answer
Bowling word	1 answer
Clear the scenery	1 answer
Forty-niner's fantasy	1 answer
Foul ball, often	1 answer
Fouled-off pitch, perhaps	1 answer
General in charge of labor disputes?	1 answer
Go on the picket line	1 answer
Good result for a pitcher or a bowler	1 answer
Hit with a bat, or miss with a bat	1 answer
INDUSTRIAL action	1 answer
It could be a Broadway show-stopper	1 answer
It may whiz past one's knees	1 answer
Job action	1 answer
Kegler's hope	1 answer
Lane X	1 answer
Light, as a match	1 answer
Lower a mast, sail, or flag	1 answer
Lucky hit in bowling.	1 answer
One for the baseball pitcher.	1 answer
One in the zone	1 answer
One of three for an out	1 answer
One third of a turkey	1 answer
One-third of a turkey	1 answer
Ore discovery	1 answer
Perfect pitch	1 answer
Perfect pitch, in a way	1 answer
Sound, as the hour	1 answer
Success in pitching or bowling	1 answer
Swing and a miss, say	1 answer
Temple of the Dog went on a "Hunger" one	1 answer
Ten pins in one ball	1 answer
Term in baseball and bowling	1 answer
Third of a turkey, in bowling	1 answer
Thrill at the alleys	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.

Hint 2 anagram

EZCEMA

Hint 3 another clue

eruption

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Unscramble STRIKE 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 STRIKE (5)

Eventually Peter would dive through the air, and catch Michael just before he could strike the sea, and it was lovely the way he did it; but he always waited till the last moment, and you felt it was his cleverness that interested him and not the saving of human life.

Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991

Dire was the tossing, deep the groans, despair Tended the sick busiest from Couch to Couch; And over them triumphant Death his Dart Shook, but delaid to strike, though oft invok’t With vows, as thir chief good, and final hope.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

The Bowman immediately shot out an arrow and said to the Lion: “I send thee my messenger, that from him thou mayest learn what I myself shall be when I assail thee.” The wounded Lion rushed away in great fear, and when a Fox who had seen it all happen told him to be of good courage and not to back off at the first attack he replied: “You counsel me in vain; for if he sends so fearful a messenger, how shall I abide the attack of the man himself?” Be on guard against men who can strike from a distance.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

The sick man heard his wife strike a match in the kitchen, and the light of a lamp glimmered through the cracks of the door.

O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

Come, let’s strike a balance with the twenty pounds, and be friends.” She gave a sigh of resignation.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Quotes with STRIKE (3)

i don't regret the difficulties I experienced; I think they help helped me to become the person I am today. i feel the way a warrior must feel after years of traning; he doesn't remember the details of everything he learned, but he knows how to strike when the time is right

Paulo Coelho The Zahir

Johannes had once said that violence and cruelty were just a stupid person's way of making himself felt, because it was easer to use your hands to strike a blow than to use your brain to find a logical and just solution to the problem.

Anne Holm I Am David

There is a very old saying that says, "Strike the iron when its hot". So start working on the idea when its young. The more you delay the execution of your idea, more will be your drop in enthusiasm and lesser will be your chances for its success.

Jiten Bhatt

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 75 times in crossword archives (1944–2023).