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stroking out

stroking out is the present participle and gerund of stroke out.

Meaning of stroke out

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

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What is stroking out the present participle and gerund of?
Stroking out is the present participle and gerund of stroke out.

Words near stroking out in the dictionary

  1. strokesmen
  2. strokest
  3. stroketh
  4. stroketomics
  5. stroking
  6. stroking out
  7. stroking someone's ego
  8. strokingly
  9. strokings
  10. stroky
  11. Strole

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