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strike off

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strike off
vb (tr)
1. to remove or erase from (a list, record, etc.) by or as if by a stroke of the pen
2. (adverb) to cut off or separate by or as if by a blow she was struck off from the inheritance
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Verb1.strike off - remove from a list; "Cross the name of the dead person off the list"
take away, take out - take out or remove; "take out the chicken after adding the vegetables"
Translations
? strike off
vt sep
(= cut off)abschlagen
(= remove) (from list) → (aus)streichen; solicitordie Lizenz entziehen (+dat); doctordie Zulassung entziehen (+dat); (from price) → abziehen (prep obj von); to be struck off (Brit Med, Jur) → die Zulassung verlieren
(= print)drucken; to strike off a proofeinen Bürstenabzug machen
vi (= set off)sich auf den Weg machen; (road etc also)abbiegen


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Then if ever you loved me, and for the sake of that service, draw your bright brown sword and strike off my head; never let me fall alive into the hand of the Sheriff of Nottingham.
During all that time Lucie was never sure, from hour to hour, but that the Guillotine would strike off her husband's head next day.
Once the flames crept forward so swiftly on my right as I ran that I was outflanked and had to strike off to the left.
 
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