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Exact Match:

stroke

a light touch with the hands

a single complete movement

(sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand; "it took two strokes to get out of the bunker"; "a good shot require good balance and tempo"; "he left me an almost impossible shot"

any one of the repeated movements of the limbs and body used for locomotion in swimming or rowing

a mark made by a writing implement (as in cursive writing)

a light touch

the oarsman nearest the stern of the shell who sets the pace for the rest of the crew

a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain

treat gingerly or carefully; "You have to stroke the boss"

strike a ball with a smooth blow

row at a particular rate

touch lightly and with affection, with brushing motions; "He stroked his long beard"

Synonyms:

• Jacksonian epilepsy,
• Rolandic epilepsy,
• abdominal epilepsy,
• abuse,
• access,
• accomplished fact,
• accomplishment,
• ache,
• achievement,
• aching,
• act,
• acta,
• action,
• activated epilepsy,
• ad hoc measure,
• adventure,
• affect epilepsy,
• akinetic epilepsy,
• aneurysm,
• angina,
• angina pectoris,
• answer,
• aortic insufficiency,
• aortic stenosis,
• apoplectic stroke,
• apoplexy,
• approach,
• arrest,
• arrhythmia,
• arteriosclerosis,
• artifice,
• assay,
• atherosclerosis,
• atrial fibrillation,
• attack,
• attempt,
• auricular fibrillation,
• autonomic epilepsy,
• band,
• bang,
• bar,
• bash,
• bat,
• beat,
• beating,
• belt,
• beriberi heart,
• bid,
• biff,
• bit,
• blarney,
• bleed,
• bleed white,
• blockage,
• blow,
• bonk,
• breakup,
• breath,
• brush,
• butter,
• butter up,
• cardiac arrest,
• cardiac epilepsy,
• cardiac insufficiency,
• cardiac shock,
• cardiac stenosis,
• cardiac thrombosis,
• carditis,
• caress,
• cataclysm,
• catalepsy,
• cataplexy,
• chop,
• climax,
• clip,
• clonic spasm,
• clonus,
• clout,
• clump,
• congenital heart disease,
• contact,
• contrivance,
• convulsion,
• cor biloculare,
• cor juvenum,
• cor triatriatum,
• coronary,
• coronary insufficiency,
• coronary thrombosis,
• cortical epilepsy,
• countermove,
• coup,
• course of action,
• crack,
• cramp,
• cross-hatching,
• cursive epilepsy,
• cut,
• cutaneous sense,
• dash,
• dealings,
• deed,
• delineation,
• demarche,
• device,
• diagonal,
• diastolic hypertension,
• diastrophism,
• dig,
• dint,
• diplegia,
• dirty work,
• disaster,
• distress,
• diurnal epilepsy,
• dodge,
• doing,
• doings,
• dolor,
• donkeywork,
• dotted line,
• drain,
• drub,
• drubbing,
• drudgery,
• drumming,
• eclampsia,
• effort,
• embolism,
• employment,
• encased heart,
• endeavor,
• endocarditis,
• enterprise,
• epilepsia,
• epilepsia gravior,
• epilepsia major,
• epilepsia minor,
• epilepsia mitior,
• epilepsia nutans,
• epilepsia tarda,
• epilepsy,
• epitasis,
• essay,
• example,
• expedient,
• experiment,
• exploit,
• extrasystole,
• fag,
• fait accompli,
• falling sickness,
• fatigue,
• fatty heart,
• feat,
• feel,
• feel up,
• feeling,
• fibroid heart,
• fingertip caress,
• fit,
• flash,
• flask-shaped heart,
• flick,
• fling,
• flourish,
• focal epilepsy,
• fondle,
• frenzy,
• frictionize,
• frosted heart,
• fusillade,
• gambit,
• gest,
• gesture,
• get around,
• gimmick,
• glance,
• go,
• grand mal,
• graze,
• grief,
• grind,
• grip,
• hachure,
• hairline,
• hairy heart,
• half a jiffy,
• half a mo,
• half a second,
• half a shake,
• hand,
• hand-mindedness,
• handiwork,
• handwork,
• happening,
• hatching,
• haute mal,
• heart attack,
• heart block,
• heart condition,
• heart disease,
• heart failure,
• hemiplegia,
• high blood pressure,
• hint,
• hit,
• honey,
• hurt,
• hypertension,
• hypertensive heart disease,
• hysterical epilepsy,
• ictus,
• ill-use,
• impose upon,
• improvisation,
• industry,
• infantile paralysis,
• injury,
• instant,
• iota,
• ischemic heart disease,
• jab,
• jiff,
• jiffy,
• job,
• jolly,
• jury-rig,
• jury-rigged expedient,
• kid along,
• kiss,
• knead,
• knock,
• labor,
• lambency,
• lap,
• larval epilepsy,
• laryngeal epilepsy,
• laryngospasm,
• last expedient,
• last resort,
• last shift,
• latent epilepsy,
• lay it on,
• lesion,
• lick,
• lick of work,
• light touch,
• line,
• lineation,
• lockjaw,
• make use of,
• makeshift,
• maneuver,
• manipulate,
• manual labor,
• mark,
• massage,
• matter,
• matutinal epilepsy,
• means,
• measure,
• menstrual epilepsy,
• microsecond,
• milk,
• millisecond,
• minute,
• misuse,
• mitral insufficiency,
• mitral stenosis,
• moil,
• moment,
• motion,
• move,
• movement,
• musicogenic epilepsy,
• myocardial infarction,
• myocardial insufficiency,
• myocarditis,
• myoclonous epilepsy,
• myovascular insufficiency,
• nasty blow,
• nocturnal epilepsy,
• nose,
• nuzzle,
• occlusion,
• occurrence,
• offer,
• oil,
• operation,
• orgasm,
• overdo it,
• overt act,
• overthrow,
• ox heart,
• pain,
• palpitation,
• palsy,
• pang,
• paralysis,
• paralytic stroke,
• paraplegia,
• paresis,
• paroxysm,
• paroxysmal tachycardia,
• passage,
• passion,
• pat,
• pelt,
• performance,
• pericarditis,
• pet,
• petit mal,
• physiologic epilepsy,
• pile,
• pis aller,
• play on,
• play up to,
• plunk,
• poke,
• polio,
• poliomyelitis,
• pound,
• premature beat,
• presume upon,
• proceeding,
• production,
• pseudoaortic insufficiency,
• psychic epilepsy,
• psychomotor epilepsy,
• pulmonary insufficiency,
• pulmonary stenosis,
• pulsation,
• pulse,
• punch,
• quake,
• rap,
• rat race,
• reflex epilepsy,
• res gestae,
• resort,
• resource,
• rheumatic heart disease,
• rotatoria,
• round heart,
• rub,
• rub against,
• rub down,
• rub noses,
• sclerosis,
• score,
• scrap,
• scut work,
• sec,
• second,
• seizure,
• sense of touch,
• sensory epilepsy,
• sensory paralysis,
• serial epilepsy,
• sexual climax,
• shake,
• shake-up,
• shift,
• shock,
• shot,
• slam,
• slash,
• slavery,
• slog,
• slug,
• smack,
• smash,
• soap,
• sock,
• soft-soap,
• soften up,
• solution,
• soothe,
• sore,
• sore spot,
• spadework,
• spasm,
• splash,
• split second,
• stab,
• step,
• stitch,
• stony heart,
• stopgap,
• stoppage,
• stratagem,
• streak,
• streaking,
• stress,
• stress of life,
• striation,
• strike,
• string along,
• strip,
• stripe,
• striping,
• stroke of policy,
• stroke of work,
• strong bid,
• stunt,
• sublineation,
• suck dry,
• suffering,
• suggestion,
• swat,
• sweat,
• swing,
• swipe,
• tachycardia,
• tactic,
• tactile sense,
• taction,
• take advantage of,
• tap,
• tardy epilepsy,
• task,
• tattoo,
• temblor,
• temporary expedient,
• tender spot,
• tentative,
• tentative poke,
• tetanus,
• tetany,
• thing,
• thing done,
• throb,
• throes,
• thromboembolism,
• thrombosis,
• thump,
• thwack,
• tick,
• tidal wave,
• tiresome work,
• toil,
• tonic epilepsy,
• tonic spasm,
• torsion spasm,
• touch,
• tour de force,
• transaction,
• traumatic epilepsy,
• travail,
• treadmill,
• trial,
• trial and error,
• trice,
• trick,
• tricuspid insufficiency,
• tricuspid stenosis,
• trismus,
• trump,
• try,
• tsunami,
• turn,
• turtle heart,
• twink,
• twinkle,
• twinkling,
• twitch,
• two shakes,
• ucinate epilepsy,
• underline,
• underlining,
• underscore,
• underscoring,
• undertaking,
• upheaval,
• use,
• use ill,
• varicose veins,
• varix,
• ventricular fibrillation,
• virgule,
• visitation,
• wallop,
• whack,
• whisper,
• whop,
• wink,
• work,
• work on,
• work upon,
• working hypothesis,
• working proposition,
• works,
• wound,
• wrench,
• yerk