stroke

stroke is a 6-letter English word with 38 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Struck. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 10 · 38 senses

Definitions

1. past tense. Struck.
2. transitive verb. 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.
3. transitive verb. The result of effect of a striking; injury or affliction; soreness.
4. transitive verb. The striking of the clock to tell the hour.
5. transitive verb. A gentle, caressing touch or movement upon something; a stroking.
6. transitive verb. A mark or dash in writing or printing; a line; the touch of a pen or pencil; as, an up stroke; a firm stroke.
7. transitive verb. Hence, by extension, an addition or amandment to a written composition; a touch; as, to give some finishing strokes to an essay.
8. transitive verb. 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.
9. transitive verb. A throb or beat, as of the heart.
10. transitive verb. 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.
11. transitive verb. The rate of succession of stroke; as, a quick stroke.
12. transitive verb. The oar nearest the stern of a boat, by which the other oars are guided; -- called also stroke oar.
13. transitive verb. The rower who pulls the stroke oar; the strokesman.
14. transitive verb. 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.
15. transitive verb. 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.
16. transitive verb. Power; influence.
17. transitive verb. Appetite.
18. transitive verb. To strike.
19. transitive verb. To rib gently in one direction; especially, to pass the hand gently over by way of expressing kindness or tenderness; to caress; to soothe.
20. transitive verb. To make smooth by rubbing.
21. transitive verb. To give a finely fluted surface to.
22. transitive verb. To row the stroke oar of; as, to stroke a boat.
23. noun. a light touch with the hands

    Synonyms: stroking

24. noun. a single complete movement
25. noun. (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"

    Synonyms: shot

26. noun. any one of the repeated movements of the limbs and body used for locomotion in swimming or rowing
27. noun. a mark made on a surface by a pen, pencil, or paintbrush

    "she applied the paint in careful strokes"

28. noun. a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information

    Synonyms: diagonal, separatrix, slash, solidus, virgule

29. noun. anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause

    "winning the lottery was a happy accident"

    "the pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck"

    Synonyms: accident, fortuity

30. noun. the maximum movement available to a pivoted or reciprocating piece by a cam

    Synonyms: throw

31. noun. a light touch
32. noun. the oarsman nearest the stern of the shell who sets the pace for the rest of the crew
33. noun. (golf) the unit of scoring in golf is the act of hitting the ball with a club

    "Nicklaus won by three strokes"

34. noun. a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain

    Synonyms: apoplexy, cva

35. verb. treat gingerly or carefully

    "You have to stroke the boss"

36. verb. strike a ball with a smooth blow
37. verb. row at a particular rate
38. verb. touch lightly and repeatedly, as with brushing motions

    "He stroked his long beard"

Synonyms

stroking, shot, diagonal, separatrix, slash, solidus, virgule, accident, fortuity, throw, apoplexy, cva

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in stroke:

stoker, tokers, trokes

Common word forms

stroked, stroker, strokes, stroking

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