strike out
verb- To lash out; to strike or hit at someone or something, particularly something in arm's length of the striker and at or near the level of the striker's head.
- To strongly criticize or make a verbal attack, particularly as a response to previous criticism or provocation.
- To draw a line through some text such as a printed or written sentence, with the purpose of deleting that text from the rest of the document.
- to treat something as settled
- Of a batter, to be retired after three strikes (missed swings, as opposed to any other way of becoming "out"); of a pitcher, to cause this to happen to the batter. · Jones struck out on a nasty slider.· The pitcher struck out Jones with a nasty slider.
- To fail; to be refused a request or to have a proposal not be accepted, in particular a request for a (hopefully romantic) date. · Dave asked the new girl to the dance but he struck out.
- To begin to make one's way. · The travellers struck out towards the line of mountains.
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