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noun

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as in blow
a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument all it took was one hard stroke to knock the ball out of the tree

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verb

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as in to caress
to touch or handle in a tender or loving manner the young mother gently stroked the sleeping child's brow and then leaned over and kissed him

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as in to massage
to praise too much a politician with a special gift for stroking fat-cat donors

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“Stroke.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stroke. Accessed 29 Nov. 2023.

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