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UK
/stɹˈəʊk/
]
[ US /ˈstɹoʊk/ ]
[ US /ˈstɹoʊk/ ]
VERB
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treat gingerly or carefully
You have to stroke the boss - row at a particular rate
- strike a ball with a smooth blow
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touch lightly and repeatedly, as with brushing motions
He stroked his long beard
NOUN
- the oarsman nearest the stern of the shell who sets the pace for the rest of the crew
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(sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand
it took two strokes to get out of the bunker
a good shot requires good balance and tempo
he left me an almost impossible shot - the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam
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anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause
the pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck
it was due to an accident or fortuity
winning the lottery was a happy accident - any one of the repeated movements of the limbs and body used for locomotion in swimming or rowing
- a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain
- a light touch with the hands
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a mark made on a surface by a pen, pencil, or paintbrush
she applied the paint in careful strokes -
(golf) the unit of scoring in golf is the act of hitting the ball with a club
Nicklaus won by three strokes - a light touch
- a single complete movement
- a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information
How To Use stroke In A Sentence
- The celebrations proper always begin on the last stroke of midnight.
- The sun was bright in a sky already shading into a cooler, breezier blue, and the trees surrounding the compound glowed with the first, bright brush strokes of fall.
- When the matador realises the bull is weak and unable to charge much longer he will reach for his killing sword and seek to manoeuvre it directly in front of him with its head down, so that he can administer the death stroke.
- In times like these, to stroke the orb's gentle surface was a comfort, yet I fought the urge to wake it from its resting place.
- Of those who survive, about another 20% will end up in institutional care who weren't in that before the stroke.
- Due to the very long stroke and alloy conrods, the motor is redlined at 7,000 and will definitely explode if persistently over-revved.
- Additionally, FDA officials decided the drug must carry a warning on its label stating, "An increased rate of stroke was observed following Xarelto discontinuation in clinical trials" in patients with the faulty heartbeat known as atrial fibrillation. FDA Approves Anticlotting Drug
- The first, innocuous shower stroked the lake's surface but, when the wind came up, the loons began to call madly.
- Obesity is a major risk factor for heart disease, stroke, diabetes and cancer.
- Klimt's tentative chalk and pencil strokes do little more than outline and emphasize the foreshortened legs, buttocks and genitalia of his subjects, their scrawled lifelessness compromising the images' erotic impact. Modernism's Austrian Rebels