Struck
/strʌk/
Definitions
- (v.) Past tense and past participle of strike; to have hit or affected something intentionally or unintentionally.
The defendant struck the plaintiff during the altercation.
- (adj.) Relating to being removed or deleted, as in a ‘struck’ provision in a legal document indicating deletion.
The court reviewed the struck clauses in the contract.
Forms
- strike
- striking
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Commentary
‘Struck’ is primarily a past tense verb form of ‘strike’ but also used adjectivally in legal contexts to denote deletions or removals in documents, such as struck-through text indicating excisions.
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