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vb. 1 (en-paststrike off) 2 (context of the name of a person or thing English) Removed from a list or register. 3 removed, usually from a position of power or responsibility or stature.
Usage examples of "struck off".
Bauman, utterly unnerved, and believing that the creature with which he had to deal was something either half-human or half-devil, some great goblin-beast, abandoned everything but his rifle, and struck off at speed down the pass, not halting until he reached the Beaver meadows where the hobbled Ponies were still grazing.
I will have your hands struck off at the wrists and you will be scourged naked from the Temple like the dogs you are!
The journals of all Europe were untiring in their praises of the bold explorers, and the Daily Telegraph struck off an edition of three hundred and seventy-seven thousand copies on the day when it published a sketch of the trip.
And after these, I had shown what must be the fabric of the nerves and muscles of the human body to give the animal spirits contained in it the power to move the members, as when we see heads shortly after they have been struck off still move and bite the earth, although no longer animated.
He ordered Candide's and Martin's irons to be struck off, told his men that a mistake had been made, and dismissed them.
Then, realizing their mistake, they retraced their steps, and leaving this path at the spot where they had found it, struck off again to the right.
We did not turn back in the direction of the fell-worm's ending, but struck off at an angle.
The rest of Tar Valon had been struck off already, after the fourth time she nearly walked into a copper-skinned woman, this time nodding in satisfaction as, of all things, she studied a stable that seemed freshly painted blue.
I struck off in that direction, eventually finding the right office and arranging to have my property delivered to my hotel.