STRIKE OUT Copy link • STRIKE OUTTo destroy, erase, delere, exstinguere (general term, to destroy): inducere (to erase writing with the blunt end of the style): eradere (to scratch out, erase). To strike anybody out of a list, nomen alicujus eximere de tabulis (of senators); eradere aliquem albo senatorio (Tac., Ann., 4, 42, fin.); a name from a book, nomen tollere ex libro. To invent, find, Vid: STRIKE TOGETHER, collidere (e.g., manus): ☞ manus complodere is of the Silver Age.