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strode

(strōd)

Past tense of stride.

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strode

(strəʊd)

the past tense of stride

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stride

(straɪd)

v. strode, strid•den (ˈstrɪd n)
strid•ing,
n. v.i.

1. to walk with long steps.

2. to straddle.

v.t.

3. to walk with long steps over or along: to stride the deck.

4. to pass over in one long step: to stride a ditch.

5. to straddle.

6. a striding manner or gait.

7. a long step in walking.

8. a progressive movement, as of a horse, composed of characteristic steps in which each foot is returned to its relative starting position.

9. the distance covered in a stride.

10. a steady natural pace.

11. a step forward in development or progress.

Idioms:

1. hit one's stride,

a. to achieve a steady pace.

b. to reach the level at which one functions most competently.

2. take in stride, to deal with calmly or acceptingly.

[before 900; (v.) Middle English; Old English strīdan, c. Middle Low German strīden to set the legs apart]

strid′er, n.

Translations

stride

(straid) past tensestrode (stroud) : past participlestridden (ˈstridn) – verb

to walk with long steps. He strode along the path; He strode off in anger.

noun

a long step. He walked with long strides.

make great strides

to progress well. He's making great strides in his piano-playing.

take in one's stride

to accept or cope with (a matter) successfully without worrying about it. She takes difficulties in her stride.

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As he wearily laboured at his line, the thought struck him, "It may be all false--a mere newspaper lie." And he strode up to the recumbent smoker.

Don't you and Herbert wait supper for me." And away he strode, up over the moor at the back of the house, to be alone, and master his grief if possible.

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Levin strode along the highroad, absorbed not so much in his thoughts (he could not yet disentangle them) as in his spiritual condition, unlike anything he had experienced before.

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Old files of magazines and newspapers were searched through, and the romantic and historic Elam Harnish, Adventurer of the Frost, King of the Klondike, and father of the Sourdoughs, strode upon the breakfast table of a million homes along with the toast and breakfast foods.

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He was splendidly muscled, a heavy man, and though he strode with the certitude and directness of the physical man, there was nothing heavy about his stride.

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"Well, of all the--" he ejaculated again, as he turned and strode on as before.

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No sooner did he set eyes on the stranger, than, leaping on his feet, and seizing his walking stick, he strode a mile or two to meet him; all the while brandishing the sturdy pine tree, so that it whistled through the air.

Then the Giant, grinning with rage, strode tower-like towards the stranger (ten times strengthened at every step), and fetched a monstrous blow at him with his pine tree, which Hercules caught upon his club; and being more skilful than Antaeus, he paid him back such a rap upon the sconce, that down tumbled the great lumbering man-mountain, flat upon the ground.

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When they had thus armed, each amid his own people, they strode fierce of aspect into the open space, and both Trojans and Achaeans were struck with awe as they beheld them.

Thus they laid themselves on the bed together; but the son of Atreus strode among the throng, looking everywhere for Alexandrus, and no man, neither of the Trojans nor of the allies, could find him.

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So he strode whistling along the leafy forest path that led to Fosse Way, turning neither to the right hand nor the left, until at last he came to where the path branched, leading on the one hand onward to Fosse Way, and on the other, as well Little John knew, to the merry Blue Boar Inn.

As thus he strode along in anger, putting together the words he would use to chide Little John, he heard, of a sudden, loud and angry voices, as of men in a rage, passing fell words back and forth from one to the other.