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stricken up

stricken up is the simple past and past participle of strike up.

Meaning of strike up

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To start something with somebody else, such as a conversation or relationship.
    • To make him feel welcome, she struck up a conversation with the newly arrived guest.
  2. (ergative, idiomatic, intransitive) To start something, usually playing live music.
    • The band struck up and everyone started to dance.
  3. To raise (as sheet metal), in making dishes, pans, etc., by blows or pressure in a die.

Questions about stricken up

What is stricken up the simple past and past participle of?
Stricken up is the simple past and past participle of strike up.

Words near stricken up in the dictionary

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

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