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| strike out |
| 1. v. Barrer, biffer, rayer, raturer, supprimer. |
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| Let's strike out this clause. |
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| Supprimons cette clause. |
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| 2. v. (Baseball) Être retiré sur des prises. |
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| 3. v. (Par extension) (Argot) Échouer. |
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| anglais > anglais |
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| strike out |
| 1. v. (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. |
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| 2. v. (figuratively) To strongly criticize or make a verbal attack, particularly as a response to previous criticism or provocation. |
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| 3. v. 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. |
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| 4. v. (law, figurative) to treat something as settle, settled |
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| 5. v. (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. |
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| Jones struck out on a nasty slider. |
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| The pitcher struck out Jones with a nasty slider. |
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| 6. v. (intransitive, colloquial, figuratively) To fail; to be refused a request or to have a proposal not be accepted, in particular a request for a (hopefully romantic) date. |
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| Dave asked the new girl to the dance but he struck out. |
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| 7. v. To begin to make one's way. |
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| The travellers struck out towards the line of mountains. |
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| Analyse |
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| strike |
| 1. v. Rayer, barrer. |
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| 2. v. Frapper, battre, terrasser. |
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| 3. v. Faire la grève, se mettre en grève. |
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| 4. n. Grève. |
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| The workers voted for a strike. |
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| out |
| 1. v. Dehors, à l'extérieur. |
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| 2. n. Excuse. |
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| I need an out. |
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| 3. n. Conséquence d'une discipline complexe. Essentiellement dans l'expression the ins and outs of something. |
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| The ins and outs of politics : Les différents aspects de la politique. |
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