What are the opposite words for stroked?

The word "stroked" typically means to gently touch or caress someone or something. Some antonyms for the word include "hit," "slap," "punch," and "beat," which all involve forceful actions. Other antonyms can include "neglect," "abandon," "ignore," or "reject," which involve completely disregarding the object or person altogether. Some additional antonyms could also be found in words such as "disparage," "ridicule," or "belittle," which involve putting down the person or object in question. While all of these words have opposite meanings to "stroked," they also carry very different connotations and emotions, illustrating just how important it is to choose our words carefully when speaking or writing.

What are the antonyms for Stroked?

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• Other relevant words (noun):
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Usage examples for Stroked

Famous quotes with Stroked

• The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And, though the sound were parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.

  Ben Jonson
• The child begins with crude sex alone. It innocently indulges itself in sensual pleasures. It loves kissing and to be kissed, stroking and to be stroked, fondly contemplating its excretions. The civilized society into which it is born magnifies the importance of these insignificant local sensations, gives them intellectual depth. It creates a handsome receptacle, love, to contain the humours of this unnaturally enlarged instinct.

  Laura Riding
• Imams and muftis and kathis sat here on cushions, turbaned elders who had risen above the squalor of the flesh. The heat was tamed by wide-eyed boys with feathery fans. One of the muftis much admired one of these boys, and he stroked his buttocks with a gentle hand. The smell of the holy was wafted towards entering Bonaparte, who said with care:

  Anthony Burgess
• I only wish I may see your head stroked down with a slipper.

  Terence
• The sky was aquamarine, stroked with clouds. She could smell the grass and taste the scent of small, crushed flowers. She looked back up over her forehead at the gray-black wall towering behind her, and wondered if the castle had ever been attacked on days like this. Did the sky seem so limitless, the waters of the straits so fresh and clean, the flowers so bright and fragrant, when men fought and screamed, hacked and staggered and fell and watched their blood mat the grass? Mists and dusk, rain and lowering cloud seemed the better background; clothes to cover the shame of battle.

  Iain Banks

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