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struck twice

struck twice is the simple past and past participle of strike twice.

Meaning of strike twice

Verb

strike twice (third-person singular simple present strikes twice, present participle striking twice, simple past and past participle struck twice)

  1. (but figuratively meaning other things) To impact the same location, person, etc. again.
    • "Has fortune struck twice in one week? I send you out after cheese and you bring home an entire cow?”2004, Lynn Abbey, Thieves' World: Enemies of Fortune, page 276

Questions about struck twice

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

Words near struck twice in the dictionary

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

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