(n.) A short stick, with one end loaded, or thicker and heavier that the other, used as an offensive weapon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yet, while the source material isn't quite as sanguinary as its Japanese cousin, there are certainly enough stabbings, bludgeonings and deaths to mean that making a loyal adaptation that the core fanbase could actually go and watch was something of a challenge.
(2) Rivett was found bludgeoned to death with a lead pipe at the countess’s home at 46 Lower Belgrave Street on the evening of 7 November 1974.
(3) What’s troubling isn’t the premise that a straight man might be stricken by rape-anxiety before going to jail, but the crass and bludgeoning way it’s handled,” he said.
(4) He can't quite bludgeon his way through, Taiwo booting it behind for a corner.
(5) While raising concerns about each other's possession of the disease, they have worked together to bludgeon the other members of the World Health Organisation, which have pressed them to destroy their stocks.
(6) For a moment I think some jealous caveman has bludgeoned me with a club but, from my prone position, I can see that there is a nasty rock protrusion at head height.
(7) He was a worldly man of great personal charm who loved friendship and conversation, enjoyed intellectual disagreement and sought to persuade not to bludgeon.
(8) "Poisoning, shooting or bludgeoning [greys] to death in a sack is irrational, inhumane and doomed to fail," said the charity, who thinks the public has been fed the "emotive anthropomorphism" of Beatrix Potter's Squirrel Nutkin too often by conservationists seeking to bring back reds.
(9) In January, the Ugandan gay rights activist David Kato was bludgeoned to death after he was pictured on the front of the Ugandan tabloid Rolling Stone alongside the headline Hang Them.
(10) He yells to his wife: "Get away, hide," but you bludgeon him unconscious and then you go for her.
(11) Photograph: Guardian The news that the billionaire businessman might head to the land of moules-frites generated headlines, insults, a lawsuit and divided France roughly down right-left lines: those who saw Arnault as a symbol of the "selfish rich" and those who saw him as a standard bearer for the tax-bludgeoned entrepreneur trying to create jobs and wealth.
(12) I am arresting you, Humphrey, for this violent bludgeoning as you are the only person with a hat but no specs."
(13) I feel bludgeoned by a past I only imagine I missed.
(14) And while their shows are exceptionally loud – earplugs are given out ("it is not cool to damage your senses") – this is no heavy-metal bludgeoning.
(15) In Shujai’iya, the area of Gaza City that saw some of the worst fighting as Israeli tanks and bulldozers bludgeoned through the neighbourhood, the destruction was a vision of hell.
(16) McCluskey’s one-time flatmate, the Labour deputy leader, Tom Watson, had been hoping for a smoother transition, but McCluskey called the wave of resignations by Labour frontbenchers “an attempted political lynching, designed to bully and bludgeon Jeremy Corbyn, this deeply decent and kind man, out of the job he was elected to do”.
(17) Our rulers wield a moral club with which they wish to bludgeon us into accepting that they are on our side.
(18) Rooney’s jubilation manifested itself in the leaping somersault that we first saw from him when he was bludgeoning defences at Euro 2004.
(19) A year before Shepard’s murder, a 15-year-old named Daphne Sulk was found dead outside Laramie – nude, bludgeoned, and stabbed 17 times.
(20) In the Guardian's first review of the film , Xan Brooks described it as "a bruising, gruelling experience" that "bludgeons the body and tenderises the soul.
Strike
Definition:
(v. t.) To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument or missile.
(v. t.) To come in collision with; to strike against; as, a bullet struck him; the wave struck the boat amidships; the ship struck a reef.
(v. t.) To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
(v. t.) To stamp or impress with a stroke; to coin; as, to strike coin from metal: to strike dollars at the mint.
(v. t.) To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate; to set in the earth; as, a tree strikes its roots deep.
(v. t.) To punish; to afflict; to smite.
(v. t.) To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes; as, the clock strikes twelve; the drums strike up a march.
(v. t.) To lower; to let or take down; to remove; as, to strike sail; to strike a flag or an ensign, as in token of surrender; to strike a yard or a topmast in a gale; to strike a tent; to strike the centering of an arch.
(v. t.) To make a sudden impression upon, as by a blow; to affect sensibly with some strong emotion; as, to strike the mind, with surprise; to strike one with wonder, alarm, dread, or horror.
(v. t.) To affect in some particular manner by a sudden impression or impulse; as, the plan proposed strikes me favorably; to strike one dead or blind.
(v. t.) To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke; as, to strike a light.
(v. t.) To cause to ignite; as, to strike a match.
(v. t.) To make and ratify; as, to strike a bargain.
(v. t.) To take forcibly or fraudulently; as, to strike money.
(v. t.) To level, as a measure of grain, salt, or the like, by scraping off with a straight instrument what is above the level of the top.
(v. t.) To cut off, as a mortar joint, even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
(v. t.) To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly; as, my eye struck a strange word; they soon struck the trail.
(v. t.) To borrow money of; to make a demand upon; as, he struck a friend for five dollars.
(v. t.) To lade into a cooler, as a liquor.
(v. t.) To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
(v. t.) To advance; to cause to go forward; -- used only in past participle.
(v. i.) To move; to advance; to proceed; to take a course; as, to strike into the fields.
(v. i.) To deliver a quick blow or thrust; to give blows.
(v. i.) To hit; to collide; to dush; to clash; as, a hammer strikes against the bell of a clock.
(v. i.) To sound by percussion, with blows, or as with blows; to be struck; as, the clock strikes.
(v. i.) To make an attack; to aim a blow.
(v. i.) To touch; to act by appulse.
(v. i.) To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; as, the ship struck in the night.
(v. i.) To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
(v. i.) To break forth; to commence suddenly; -- with into; as, to strike into reputation; to strike into a run.
(v. i.) To lower a flag, or colors, in token of respect, or to signify a surrender of a ship to an enemy.
(v. i.) To quit work in order to compel an increase, or prevent a reduction, of wages.
(v. i.) To become attached to something; -- said of the spat of oysters.
(v. i.) To steal money.
(n.) The act of striking.
(n.) An instrument with a straight edge for leveling a measure of grain, salt, and the like, scraping off what is above the level of the top; a strickle.
(n.) A bushel; four pecks.
(n.) An old measure of four bushels.
(n.) Fullness of measure; hence, excellence of quality.
(n.) An iron pale or standard in a gate or fence.
(n.) The act of quitting work; specifically, such an act by a body of workmen, done as a means of enforcing compliance with demands made on their employer.
(n.) A puddler's stirrer.
(n.) The horizontal direction of the outcropping edges of tilted rocks; or, the direction of a horizontal line supposed to be drawn on the surface of a tilted stratum. It is at right angles to the dip.
(n.) The extortion of money, or the attempt to extort money, by threat of injury; blackmailing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Arda Turan's deflected long-range strike puts Atlético back in control.
(2) Although the mean values for all hemodynamic variables between the two placebo periods were minimally changed, the differences in individual patients were striking.
(3) The amplitudes of the a-wave and the 01 decreased in dose-dependent manners, but their changes were less striking than those of the 01 latency.
(4) A striking feature of BEN is the familial occurrence of the disease.
(5) What is striking is the comprehensive and strategic approach they have.
(6) The most striking feature of some industrialized countries is a dramatic reduction of the prevalence of dental caries among school-aged children.
(7) Confirmation of the striking correlation between increased urinary ammonia and lowered neonatal ponderal index may afford a simple test for the identification of nutrient-related growth retardation.
(8) All aircraft exited the strike areas safely.” Earlier, residents living near the Mosul dam told the Associated Press the area was being targeted by air strikes.
(9) It’s not to punish the public, it’s to save the NHS and its people.” Another commenter added: “Of course they should strike.
(10) If you want to become a summit celebrity be sure to strike a pose whenever you see the ENB photographer approaching.
(11) I believe that what we need is a nonviolent national general strike of the kind that has been more common in Europe than here.
(12) Striking and consistent differences were found in the levels of acceptor activity in different tissues from both groups; these levels corresponded to their sensitivity to tumorigenesis by alkylating agents.
(13) "It will strike consumers as unfair that whilst the company is still trading, they are unable to use gift cards and vouchers," he said.
(14) The results show that in both viral DNAs cleavage occurs at the origin and at one additional site which shows striking sequence homology with the origin region.
(15) He campaigned for a no vote and won handsomely, backed by more than 61%, before performing a striking U-turn on Thursday night, re-tabling the same austerity terms he had campaigned to defeat and which the voters rejected.
(16) The most striking homology was to yeast SEC7 in the central domain of the gene (57% identical over 466 bp) and also the protein level (42% identical amino acids; 39% conserved amino acids).
(17) Figures from 228 organisations, of which 154 are acute hospital trusts, show that 2,077 inpatient procedures have been cancelled due to the two-day strike alongside 3,187 day case operations and procedures.
(18) Striking features were non-atherosclerotic stenosis with negative Sudan III, seen in the ICA less than 200 mu in diameter of almost all the hearts of stages II and III rabbits.
(19) The military is not being honest about the number of men on strike: most of us are refusing to eat.
(20) The most striking differences were observed on the factors: Psychopathic deviation, Mania, Schizophrenia greater than controls and social introversion lower than controls.