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EntityQ3242199· pop 29· linked from 657 articles

Also known as blow, hit, beat, bash, pommel, swat

directed physical attack

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Encyclopedic overview

Senegalese Naval Infantry and US Marines practice striking.

A strike is a directed, forceful physical attack with either a part of the human body or with a handheld object (such as a melee weapon), intended to cause blunt or penetrating trauma upon an opponent.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “strike” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.