stroke out en · VERB
Meanings
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(colloquial) To suffer a stroke (interruption of blood supply to the brain); especially, to suffer a fatal one.
A lesion that wasn't malignant and gooey, a patient that wasn't going to stroke out or wake up dead.
1990, Steve Fishman, Bomb in the Brain, page 171:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| stroking out | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| strokes out | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| stroked out | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| stroked out | Tense=Past | lexicographic |