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struck through

struck through is the simple past and 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 struck through

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

Words near struck through in the dictionary

  1. struck someone's fancy
  2. struck tallies
  3. struck the colors
  4. struck the iron while it's hot
  5. struck the tent
  6. struck through
  7. struck twice
  8. struck up
  9. struck while the iron is hot
  10. strucken
  11. struckest

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