STRIKING OUT Synonyms: 93 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb (1)

Definition of striking (out)

present participle of strike (out)

as in deleting

to show (something written) to be no longer valid by drawing a cross over or a line through it struck out all references to indecent matters

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striking out

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verb (2)

present participle of strike out

as in failing

to be unsuccessful their joint venture in Las Vegas struck out, and they hurriedly dissolved the partnership

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Hogan Harris gave up a run in the ninth but earned his 16th save by striking out pinch-hitter Oswald Peraza with two runners aboard. — Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026 Davis Martin threw 4 1/3 scoreless innings for the White Sox, striking out six, allowing three hits and walking three. — CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026 Javier, who tossed the first six innings of a combined no-hitter for Houston against Philadelphia in the 2022 World Series, gave up one run, three hits and one walk while striking out five over six innings. — ABC News, 10 Sep. 2026 Steele tossed 1 2/3 innings Wednesday night with Triple-A Iowa, allowing three runs (one earned) on four hits, striking out two and walking none. — Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026 Cameron allowed four runs on five hits while striking out seven and walking one over five innings. — Miami Herald, 3 Sep. 2026 Josh Lowe failed to get a bunt down, striking out when trying to bunt with two strikes. — Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 22 Aug. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for striking (out)

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Meanwhile, Strict Mode makes common workarounds harder, including deleting the Brick app or changing certain settings during a session.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2026
The sky had clouded in the meantime, deleting the circle from the wall—she’d arrived just in time to witness it.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026

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Earlier this month the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency asked the body to hold Iran accountable for failing to stick with safeguards meant to prevent the development of nuclear weapons, according to diplomatic officials.

— Adrienne Vogt, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2026
The New York Times has been sued by Florida’s attorney general, who’s representing shareholders in a lawsuit accusing the company’s board of directors of failing to exercise proper oversight of editorial standards.

— Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of failing

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Companies will be required to provide a simple, accessible way to cancel a subscription through the same method used to sign up — making canceling as easy as signing up.

— Lindsay Owens, New York Daily News, 28 Sep. 2026
The Stanford researchers estimated that sellers can roughly double revenue because of consumer inertia, when people forget or put off canceling, and cancellation friction, when ending a subscription takes too much time or effort.

— Barbara Booth, CNBC, 27 Sep. 2026

Definition of canceling

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The possibility -- even likelihood -- of some rickety old thing collapsing under me never occurred to me.

— Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 27 Sep. 2026
Whether Merz can stabilize his chancellorship and prevent his reform program from collapsing midstream is a question whose outcome may soon become clear.

— , CNBC, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of collapsing

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The team ended up flaming out in the first round of the Copa América, and panic ensued.

— Leander Schaerlaeckens, New Yorker, 22 May 2026
Despite missing the playoffs with a 42-40 record and flaming out of the Play-In Tournament against the Golden State Warriors, the Clippers did not have their own first-round pick, part of the cost for the 2019 swap of 2018 lottery pick Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and 2019 MVP finalist Paul George.

— Law Murray, New York Times, 11 May 2026

Definition of flaming out

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Upon returning to his home, the man claimed that two watches, including a $37,000 Rolex, were missing from his bedside table.

— Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2026
When the floating object was identified as a person, the neighbor’s wife asked a Lago caregiver through a language translation app if anyone was missing.

— Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 25 Sep. 2026

Definition of missing

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Dentsu is folding its proprietary Japanese intellectual property research into its Dentsu.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 24 Sep. 2026
The Guardian breaks down how people are folding screen-free time into everyday routines, from creating physical distance from their phones to setting aside longer stretches without any screens at all.

— Ashley Lynch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Sep. 2026

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