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Yes, STRIKING is a Scrabble word!
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- Scrabble US: valid, 13 points.
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About STRIKING
STRIKING is a valid word in the official Scrabble dictionary (US), the UK Scrabble Dictionary and Words with Friends (ENABLE).
Definitions
noun
- the physical coming together of two or more things
- the act of contacting one thing with another
verb
- deliver a sharp blow, as with the hand, fist, or weapon
- have an emotional or cognitive impact upon
- hit against; come into sudden contact with
- make a strategic, offensive, assault against an enemy, opponent, or a target
- indicate (a certain time) by striking
- affect or afflict suddenly, usually adversely
- stop work in order to press demands
- touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly
- attain
- produce by manipulating keys or strings of musical instruments, also metaphorically
- cause to form (an electric arc) between electrodes of an arc lamp
- find unexpectedly
- produce by ignition or a blow
- remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line
- cause to experience suddenly
- drive something violently into a location
- occupy or take on
- form by stamping, punching, or printing
- smooth with a strickle
- pierce with force
- arrive at after reckoning, deliberating, and weighing
adjective
- sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect
- having a quality that thrusts itself into attention
Synonyms
Also: impinge on, run into, collide with, walk out, come to, fall upon, come upon, light upon, chance upon, come across, chance on, happen upon, take up.