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Definition of Strike out
1. Verb. Remove from a list. "Cross the name of the dead person off the list"
2. Verb. Put out or be put out by a strikeout. "Oral struck out three batters to close the inning"
Specialized synonyms: Fan, Whiff
Generic synonyms: Fail, Neglect
3. Verb. Be unsuccessful in an endeavor. "The candidate struck out with his health care plan"
4. Verb. Make a motion as with one's fist or foot towards an object or away from one's body.
5. Verb. Cause to get out. "The runner was put out at third base"
Category relationships: Baseball, Baseball Game
Causes: Ease Up, Give, Give Way, Move Over, Yield
Derivative terms: Strikeout
6. Verb. Set out on a course of action. "He struck out on his own"
Definition of Strike out
1. Verb. (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. ¹
2. Verb. To draw a line through some text such as a printed or written sentence, with the purpose of deleting that text from the rest of the document. The text so deleted may be completely obscured, or it may be deliberately left legible with the line through it so that readers can see that it was deliberately deleted. ¹
3. Verb. (ergative baseball softball) Of a batter, to be retired after three strikes (missed swings, as opposed to any other way of becoming "out"); of a pitcher, to cause this to happen to the batter. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Strike Out
Literary usage of Strike out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate (1921)
"Page 3, line 5, strike out the bracket after the word " property " and ...
Page 3, line 13, strike out the words " one-half of the resident freeholders ". ..."
2. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate (1907)
"Page 11, line 3, strike out the words "not to exceed fifteen" and insert in place
... Page 22, line 15, after the word city strike out the words " and to " ..."
3. The Federal and State Constitutions: Colonial Charters, and Other Organic by Francis N. Thorpe, United States (1909)
"strike out the words "and the detailed record" in sections fifty- two and one
... strike out of section fifty-three the words " except as provided in ..."
4. Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, the Rules of the House of Representatives by United States Congress. House, Thomas Jefferson, United States (1904)
"strike out, MOTION TO—Continued. A substitute amendment may tie amended by striking
out all but the first word and inserting a new text. 2-57, Journal, pp. ..."
5. Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and Rules of the House of Representatives by Clarence A. Cannon, United States Congress. House, Thomas Jefferson (1919)
"Then it is moved out >nd insert. to strike out the same words, ... All this is
admissible, because to strike out and insert A is one proposition. ..."
6. Journal by California Legislature. Assembly, California, Legislature (1912)
"Also : In Section 1, on page 2, line 43 of the printed bill, strike out the ...
Also : In same line as preceding, strike out the word "to" and insert in ..."
7. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1910)
"From this order defendant appealed upon the following exceptions: "(1) That his
honor erred in refusing to strike out all of said itemized statement upon ..."
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