Verb

Infinitive to strike

Third person singular strikes

Simple past struck

Past participle struck or stricken

Present participle striking

to strike (third-person singular simple present strikes, present participle striking, simple past struck, past participle struck or stricken)

1. To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.

   Please strike the last sentence.

2. To hit.

   Strike the door sharply with your foot and see if it comes loose.

3. To stop working to achieve better working conditions.

   The workers struck for a week before the new contract went through.

4. (obsolete) To surrender (strike one's colors)
5. To impress, seem or appear.

   Golf has always struck me as a waste of time.

6. To manufacture, as by stamping.

   We will strike a medal in your honour

7. (nautical) To haul down, or lower a mast, a flag or cargo, etc.
8. (nautical) To capitulate: to signal a surrender by hauling down the colours.
9. {theatrical) To dismantle and take away the set; (strike the set)

Refusal to work or perform

• Strike action, also known as a walkout, a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to perform work
• Culture strike, refusal of artists or art institutions (arts organizations, festivals etc.) to respectively produce and show art
• General strike, strike action by a critical mass of the labor force in a city, region or country
• Hunger strike, participants fast as an act of political protest, or to provoke feelings of guilt in others
• Prison strike, strike taking place inside a prison, involving either a hunger strike or a prison work strike
• Rent strike, when a group of tenants en masse agrees to refuse to pay rent until a specific list of demands is met by the landlord
• Sex strike, when one or multiple persons refrain from sex with their partner(s) to achieve certain goals
• Student strike, occurs when students enrolled at a teaching institution such as a school, college or university refuse to go to class