STRIKE IN


Meaning of STRIKE IN in English

intransitive verb

1. obsolete : to enter into competition : try

advises me to strike in for some preferment — Jonathan Swift

2. obsolete : to associate as a confederate or collaborator

strike in with him and help him to dupe his father — John Dryden

3.

a. archaic : to fall into or express agreement

a shifting adversary … will strike in with any opinion — Richard Bentley †1742

b. obsolete : to prove compatible : fit in

4. : to intervene or interrupt in a sudden or unexpected manner

strike in with a foolish suggestion

5. : to disappear from the surface with subsequent internal effects

lived only a few days after the disease struck in

transitive verb

1. : imprint

presses adequate for striking in names and addresses

2.

a. : to draw (a line) from one point on the surface of a sheet to another point with a ruling machine

b. : to make (perforations that do not extend from edge to edge) in a sheet

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.