(intransitive) To begin moving away. / (transitive) To intercept. / (transitive) To avoid the undesirable consequences of; prevent. / (intransitive) To start out. / (nautical) To turn away from the wind.

(idiomatic) To strike out; to cross out; to draw a line through. / (idiomatic, by extension) To finish; to regard something as complete.

(idiomatic) A possibility that is not likely or probable.

To defend against; to repel with force or effort / (nautical) To prevent (a vessel) from running against anything with too much violence.

(intransitive, informal) to leave work, especially by recording the leaving time on a machine

(intransitive, informal) To leave and return in a short time. / (intransitive, informal) To die suddenly. / (transitive, informal) To kill someone.

To enclose an area within a fence.

(US, slang) To dawdle, lollygag; to waste time aimlessly or engage in idle activity or inactivity.

(theater) No longer needing the script to rehearse. / below the list price

simple past tense and past participle of strike off