strike off (English, verb)
expansion: strike off (third-person singular simple present strikes off, present participle striking off, simple past struck off, past participle struck off or stricken off)
Senses:
glosses: To remove from a list or register.
tags: transitive
glosses: To remove from a list or register.
To be forbidden from practicing in a regulated profession (medicine, law etc.) by virtue of being removed (usually for malpractice) from a statutory register required to practice that profession.
qualifier: passive voice
tags: UK
transitive
usually
glosses: To void an obligation; to deduct.
tags: dated
transitive
glosses: To print (a work) in a hurried manner.
tags: transitive
glosses: To sever or separate by a blow.
tags: transitive
glosses: To start going in a new direction or course of endeavor.
tags: intransitive
Forms:
form: strikes off
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: striking off
tags: participle
present
form: struck off
tags: past
form: struck off
tags: participle
past
form: stricken off
tags: participle
past