Word.ws English Dictionary

destroke

destroke verb: to reduce or shorten the stroke of (an engine).

Verb

destroke (third-person singular simple present destrokes, present participle destroking, simple past and past participle destroked)

  1. (transitive) To reduce or shorten the stroke of (an engine).

Forms of destroke

third-person singular presentdestrokes
present participledestroking
past participledestroked
pastdestroked

Origin of destroke

From de- + stroke.

Questions about destroke

What does destroke mean?
Destroke means to reduce or shorten the stroke of (an engine).
What part of speech is destroke?
Destroke is a verb.
What is the past tense of destroke?
The past tense of destroke is destroked.

Words near destroke in the dictionary

  1. destriping
  2. destrocardia
  3. destroi
  4. destroiing
  5. destrois
  6. destroke
  7. destroked
  8. destrokes
  9. destroking
  10. destroy
  11. Destroy Dick December

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: destroke (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “destroke.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/destroke. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.