Contact and joining
Synonyms for strike
Synonyms for strike: scratch and hit. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for strike
Interchangeable with strike in this sense
Audited under strike's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one strike carries in that sense.
- scratchverb, in the sense "remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name strike as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- hithit is a noun in the sense "a conspicuous success"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under strike and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
Please strike this remark from the record.
The true synonym
scratch
Same sentence, swapped: Please scratch this remark from the record.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for strike in the sentence quoted.
- assume
- shine
- arrest
Where strike turns up in the game
strike is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where strike is the trap
- cookverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is make, in the sense "prepare for eating by applying heat", and strike is one of the three tiles that lose.
- stormverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is force, in the sense "take by force", so strike is there to be ruled out.
- fingerverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is thumb, in the sense "feel or handle with the fingers", so strike is there to be ruled out.
- copyverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is recreate, in the sense "make a replica of", so strike is there to be ruled out.
Play strike
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so strike reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other contact and joining words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. strike carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.