Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)An horizontal line overlaid on other characters.

    In HTML, wrapping text with the code <del> and </del> produces a strikethrough.

    Durchstreichen

  2. (countable, uncountable)A horizontal or oblique line overlaid on individual characters.

    (oblique)

Translations

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Origin

Deverbal from strike through; the verb, in at least some cases, is a back-formation from t

Deverbal from strike through; the verb, in at least some cases, is a back-formation from the noun, despite being redundant to strike through.

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Forms

plural: strikethroughs
Singularstrikethrough
Pluralstrikethroughs

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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