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Word Meanings - OVERSTRIKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To strike beyond.

Related words: (words related to OVERSTRIKE)

  • BEYOND
    1. On the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than. Beyond that flaming hill. G. Fletcher. 2. At a place or time not yet reached; before. A thing beyond us, even before our death. Pope. 3. Past, out of the reach or
  • STRIKE
    Strucken ; p. pr. & vb. n. Striking. Struck is more commonly proceed, flow, AS. strican to go, proceed, akin to D. strijken to rub, stroke, strike, to move, go, G. streichen, OHG. strihhan, L. stringere to touch lightly, to graze, to strip off
  • STRIKER
    1. One who, or that which, strikes; specifically, a blacksmith's helper who wieds the sledge. 2. A harpoon; also, a harpooner. Wherever we come to an anchor, we always send out our strikers, and put out hooks and lines overboard, to try
  • OVERSTRIKE
    To strike beyond.
  • THUNDERSTRIKE
    1. To strike, blast, or injure by, or as by, lightning. Sir P. Sidney. 2. To astonish, or strike dumb, as with something terrible; -- rarely used except in the past participle. drove before him, thunderstruck. Milton.
  • TEN-STRIKE
    A knocking down of all ten pins at one delivery of the ball. 2. Any quick, decisive stroke or act.
  • OUTSTRIKE
    To strike out; to strike faster than. Shak.
  • HEARTSTRIKE
    To affect at heart; to shock. "The seek to heartstrike us." B. Jonson.

 

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