stroke
verb/strəʊk/
/strəʊk/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they stroke | /strəʊk/ /strəʊk/ |
| he / she / it strokes | /strəʊks/ /strəʊks/ |
| past simple stroked | /strəʊkt/ /strəʊkt/ |
| past participle stroked | /strəʊkt/ /strəʊkt/ |
| -ing form stroking | /ˈstrəʊkɪŋ/ /ˈstrəʊkɪŋ/ |
- stroke something (especially British English) to move your hand gently and slowly over an animal’s fur or hair
- He's a beautiful dog. Can I stroke him?
- She stroked the cat absently.
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- stroke something/somebody (+ adv./prep.) to move your hand gently over a surface, somebody’s hair, etc.
- He stroked her hair affectionately.
- He stroked his beard thoughtfully.
- He stroked back his hair.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- gently
- lightly
- slowly
- …
- stroke something + adv./prep. to move something somewhere with a gentle movement
- She stroked away his tears.
- He stroked the ball between the posts.
- stroke somebody (especially North American English, informal) to be very nice to somebody, especially to get them to do what you want
touch gently
move something gently
be nice to somebody
Word OriginOld English strācian ‘caress lightly’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch streek ‘a stroke’, German streichen ‘to stroke’, also to strike. The earliest noun sense ‘blow’ is first recorded in Middle English.
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