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after-stroke

after-stroke is the alternative form of afterstroke.

Meaning of afterstroke

Noun

afterstroke (plural afterstrokes)

  1. (literally) A stroke which follows another
  2. A counterblow; a return stroke
    • In an after-stroke, Lancelot brought his blade skidding down shallowly across Mordred's armor to nick his neck, the only exposed flesh on his body.2003, J. Robert King, Lancelot Du Lethe, page 82
  3. (broadly, figuratively) A payback
  4. A type of grace note that appears after the subject note rather than before

Forms of after-stroke

pluralafter-strokes

Origin of after-stroke

From Middle English after-stroke, equivalent to after- + stroke.

Questions about after-stroke

What is after-stroke the alternative form of?
After-stroke is the alternative form of afterstroke.

Words near after-stroke in the dictionary

  1. after-shafts
  2. after-shave
  3. after-shaves
  4. after-shock
  5. after-shocks
  6. after-stroke
  7. after-strokes
  8. after-taste
  9. after-tastes
  10. after-tax
  11. after-the-fact

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Adapted from Wiktionary: after-stroke (page history and authors); afterstroke (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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