Meaning

2 senses

  1. To pack up and leave.

  2. (broadly, idiomatic)To yield, give up, or surrender.

Examples

1 sentences

  1. The hyena aggressively struck Dmitri's tent with its paw.

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Forms

strikes the tent, striking the tent, struck the tent, struck the tent
Base formstrike the tent · to strike the tent
3rd person singularstrikes the tent
Present participlestriking the tent
Past simplestruck the tent
Past participlestruck the tent

irregular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theystrike the tent
he, she, itstrikes the tent

Past simpleLesson

all personsstruck the tent

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave struck the tent
he, she, ithas struck the tent

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill strike the tent

Synonyms

4 synonyms
strike campbreak camp
yield, give up, surrender:wave the white flagstrike one's flag

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
stridentstrifestrikeB1strikerstrikinglystringA2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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