1 hit, deal a blow to, knock, smack, thump, thwack, crown, cuff, punch, smite; beat, hammer, belabour, batter, pummel or pommel, pelt, buffet, thrash; cudgel, bludgeon, club, whip, horsewhip, scourge, lash, cane, flog, birch, slap, Colloq wallop, slug, whack, clout, sock, conk, belt, bash, lambaste, bop:

2 deliver, deal, aim, direct:

3 hit, collide with, land on or in or against, smash or bump or bang or crash or dash into, go or run into, impact:

4 remove, take away, take apart, dismantle, knock down; take or pull or haul down:

5 Usually, strike off or from or out. obliterate, expunge, erase, eradicate, blot out, delete, scratch, eliminate, rub out, cross (out), cancel, wipe out, US x out:

6 light, ignite:

7 affect, impress, influence, afflict, Colloq hit:

8 make, reach, attain, conclude; agree or settle (on), ratify, confirm:

9 occur or come to, dawn on or upon, Colloq hit, register (with):

10 impress, print, stamp, punch, mint, make:

11 instil, implant, induce:

12 assume, adopt, put on, display, affect, take on, feign:

13 Often, strike down. afflict, affect, attack, indispose, incapacitate, disable, cripple, invalid:

14 encounter, come or happen or hit upon, come across, chance upon, discover, stumble on, find:

15 revolt, rebel, mutiny, walk out (of or off the job):

16 strike on or upon. dream up, devise, conjure up, improvise, work out, invent, contrive, come up with, hit on or upon, arrive at:

17 strike out.

(a) fail, get nowhere, Colloq US miss the boat, flop, come a cropper, Slang US blow it, blow the gaff, come to nothing or naught or nought:

(b) See 5, above.

18 strike up. (cause to) begin or start or commence:

19 attack, assault:

20 walk-out, sit-down (strike), job action, slow-down, go-slow, work-to-rule: