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 Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 11:30 am Post subject: |
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Depends on what you want to say.
You may stroke your cat, and that's a nice thing. You give your cat a stroke, or many strokes, and your cat purrs.
If you want to hit a thief, you don't want to stroke him, you want to strike him, beat him, clobber him, pummel him, bludgeon him.
You can whip someone, lash him, give him several strokes of the lash, but you wouldn't usually call that giving him a stroke.
Another meaning of stroke, which I don't think you intend here: A problem with the brain, resulting from a burst blood vessel. Often people who have strokes lose some control over some part of the body, often one side of the face, or one arm. If you frightened your thief enough to cause him to pop a vein, I guess you would then be giving him a stroke.
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