Hack and Stroke

Hack

Hack noun - A hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument.

Usage example: completely stunned by a vicious hack across the neck

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Stroke and hack are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Stroke" instead the word "Hack" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: hacked, hacking, hacker, hackery

Stroke noun - A hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument.

Usage example: all it took was one hard stroke to knock the ball out of the tree

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Hack and stroke are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hack" instead the word "Stroke" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Words: stroked, stroking

initial	initial hack	initial stroke
single	single hack	single stroke
difficult	difficult hack	difficult stroke
massive	massive hack	massive stroke
Other adjectives: great, little, bad, quick, major, minor, last.

Beneath Suspicion: Normally Kevin would be the prime suspect for the Wire-Data hack but because he's still recovering from a stroke, nobody believes he's capable of it and he's left off the list of suspects put together by the teachers.

Source: Series / Waterloo Road
Possibly more badass than Cicero because he said that line while holding his neck out for a gladiator to cut off, but if the result of a botched job is having said executioner hack at your neck over and over — with you feeling every stroke — this may have just been a wise precaution.

Source: Do Wrong, Right

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