stroke

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The doctor wrote: "As his stroke was a direct result of the symptoms arising from his loss of pension I fear that the government's stance to his claim will trigger another stroke which in the light of his family history may result in his death."

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  1. noun The act or an instance of striking, as with the hand, a weapon, or a tool; a blow or impact.
  2. noun The striking of a bell or gong.
  3. noun The sound so produced.
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  • The grave danger that Mr. Goble, a thick-necked man, would undergo some sort of a stroke was averted by the presence of mind of the stage-director, who, returning with the hat, presented it like a bouquet to his employer, and then, his hands being now unoccupied, formed them into a funnel and through this flesh-and-blood megaphone endeavoured to impart the bad news. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Jill the Reckless, by P. G. Wodehouse
  • Still how- ever this stroke is the sensuous image of the original or ideal line, and an efficient mean to excite every imagination to the intuition of it It is demanded then, whether there be found any means in philosophy to determine the di- rection of the INNER SENSE, as in mathematics it is determinable by its specific image or out- ward picture. —  Biographia Literaria
  • When the stroke was accomplished, many good persons in the United States denounced it. —  Theodore Roosevelt; An Intimate Biography
  • The cheerful news that the cause of my stroke was a cerebral hemorrhage rather than thrombosis or an embolism, which was probably why I hadn't died on the spot. —  TheMagazineofFantasyandScienceFiction,December2004
  • My recovery from the stroke was a complete success and I'm probably in the best health I have been in a very long time. —  jkOnTheRun
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blow ·  thrust ·  touch ·  motion ·  sweep ·  move ·  wave ·  swing ·  beat ·  flash ·  sound ·  turn

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stroke:   stroking ·  strokes ·  stroked

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  1. Middle English, probably from Old English *strāc; see streig- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English stroken, from Old English strācian, from *strāc, stroke; see stroke1.

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  1. Formerly also stroak; from Middle English strook, strok, strak, from Anglo-Saxon strāc (= Middle High German G. streich, a stroke), from strīcan (preterit strāc), go, pass along, etc.: see strike, v., and cf. strike, n., strake, streak, n.
  2. from stroke, n.
  3. Also dial. (Scots) stroke, straik; from Middle English stroken, straken, from Anglo-Saxon strācian (= Dutch strijken = Old High German streichōn, Middle High German G. streichen, also freq. streicheln), stroke, causal form of strīcan, etc., go, strike: see strike, and cf. stroke. Cf. Swedish stryka, Danish stryge, Icelandic strjūka, stroke (see stroll).
  4. from stroke, v.
 

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