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stroke out

stroke out verb: to suffer a stroke (interruption of blood supply to the brain); especially, to suffer a fatal one.

Verb

stroke out (third-person singular simple present strokes out, present participle stroking out, simple past and past participle stroked out)

  1. (colloquial) To suffer a stroke (interruption of blood supply to the brain); especially, to suffer a fatal one.
    • A lesion that wasn't malignant and gooey, a patient that wasn't going to stroke out or wake up dead.1990, Steve Fishman, Bomb in the Brain, page 171

Forms of stroke out

third-person singular presentstrokes out
present participlestroking out
past participlestroked out
paststroked out

Questions about stroke out

What does stroke out mean?
Stroke out means to suffer a stroke (interruption of blood supply to the brain); especially, to suffer a fatal one.
What part of speech is stroke out?
Stroke out is a verb.
What is the past tense of stroke out?
The past tense of stroke out is stroked out.

Words near stroke out in the dictionary

  1. stroke of genius
  2. stroke of luck
  3. stroke of work
  4. stroke order
  5. stroke orders
  6. stroke out
  7. stroke play
  8. stroke someone's ego
  9. stroke volume
  10. stroke volumes
  11. strokeable

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