strike off
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.64 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "She struck off his name from the list."
- "The doctor was struck off the medical register for professional misconduct."
- "Dr. Steel Scott Struck Off the Medical Register"
- ""From 1992, when Dr. Starkie's name was struck off the medical register, he has been practicing—and he is entitled to do so. His name coming off the register has not made him unqualified[…]""
- "Andrew Wakefield, the British gastroenterologist who sparked a worldwide scare over the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine, has been found guilty of serious professional misconduct and struck off the medical register by the General Medical Council."
- "The short answer is that I took a job, with a platonic male friend, as resident porn critics for The Erotic Review magazine, literary Middle England's answer to Razzle. It was only meant to be a bit of fun—writing earnest critiques about what motivates this gardener or why that naughty doctor isn't struck off—but it soon turned to boredom, frustration and occasionally disgust."
Usage
- Transitive verb
- British usage
- Dated
- Intransitive verb