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— E.E. Cummings

It is said that if the dead who died in the Great

War were placed head to feet, they would stretch

from New York to San Francisco, and from San

Francisco back again to New York; and if those

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Dictionary Entry

strikeout

Part of Speechnoun

An instance or the act of yielding nothing

In a Sentence

“We've had one strikeout after the other on the Jones account.”

Origin

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Common Phrases

. strikeoutrecord strikeouttext strikeoutking strikeoutpitcher strikeouttotal strikeoutstrikeout onestrikeout career
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Antonyms

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Related Words

delefanshutoutstrokelessnessnonsurrenderomissionscorelessnessrunlessness

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