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struck at the heart of

struck at the heart of is the simple past and past participle of strike at the heart of.

Meaning of strike at the heart of

Verb

strike at the heart of (third-person singular simple present strikes at the heart of, present participle striking at the heart of, simple past and past participle struck at the heart of)

  1. To attack the central or most important part of (something).
    • Beeching's proposals struck at the heart of the railway industry's ethos and what it meant to be a railway worker.2023 March 22, Mike Esbester, “Staff, the public and industry will suffer”, in RAIL, number 979, page 38

Questions about struck at the heart of

What is struck at the heart of the simple past and past participle of?
Struck at the heart of is the simple past and past participle of strike at the heart of.

Words near struck at the heart of in the dictionary

  1. struck a false note
  2. struck a light
  3. struck a medium
  4. struck a nerve
  5. struck a stroke
  6. struck at the heart of
  7. struck back
  8. struck camp
  9. struck down
  10. struck dumb
  11. struck fear

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