strike out

STRIKE OUT

To destroy erase delere exstinguere (general term to destroy): inducere (to erase writing with the blunt end of the style): eradere (to scratch out erase). To strike anybody out of a list nomen alicujus eximere de tabulis (of senators); eradere aliquem albo senatorio (Tac. Ann. 4 42 fin.); a name from a book nomen tollere ex libro.

To invent find Vid: STRIKE TOGETHER collidere (e.g. manus): ☞ manus complodere is of the Silver Age.

strike out:

A. Trans.:

I. To strike out fire:

1. excūdo, di, sum, 3: he struck out a spark from flint, silici scintillam excudit, Virg. Aen. 1, 174: cf. e. ignem, Plin. 16, 40, 77, § 208.

2. ēlīdo, si, sum, 3: to s. out fire from flint, ignem e silice e., based on Plin. 11, 37, 86. § 214: cf. e. ignes nubibus, Ov. M. 6, 696 (695).

3. ēlĭcio, lĭcui and lexi, lĭcĭtum, 3: to s. out fire by concussion and friction of stones, lapidum conflictu atque tritu e. ignem, Cic. N. D. 2, 9, 25.

II. To erase, blot out, obliterate: q. v.

III. To invent, contrive: q. v.

B. Intrans.: to take a stroke, in swimming: perh. *brachia extendere s. pandere.