strike off

1. 1.

   remove from a list

   “Cross the name of the dead person off the list”

   Synonymscross offcross outstrike outmark

   Broadertake away

Questions about strike off

What does strike off mean?

strike off means "remove from a list".

What is another word for strike off?

Close synonyms include cross off, cross out, strike out, mark. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is strike off a common word?

strike off is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.