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stricken through

stricken through is the past participle of strike through.

Meaning of strike through

Verb

strike through (third-person singular simple present strikes through, present participle striking through, simple past struck through, past participle struck through or (rare or archaic) stricken through)

  1. To partly obliterate text by drawing a continuous line through the centre thereof, usually to indicate the deletion of an error or obsolete information.
    • It is useful to strike through an incorrect text, leaving it legible, to demonstrate that it is an incorrect usage.

Questions about stricken through

What is stricken through the past participle of?
Stricken through is the past participle of strike through.

Words near stricken through in the dictionary

  1. stricken off strength
  2. stricken one's colors
  3. stricken one's flag
  4. stricken out
  5. stricken the colours
  6. stricken through
  7. stricken up
  8. strickenly
  9. strickenness
  10. Stricker
  11. Strickers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stricken through (page history and authors); strike through (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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