striking through
Drawing line through
Striking through is drawing a horizontal line across text to indicate deletion, error, or completed status.
In editing, struck-through words show what's being removed while remaining legible: The contract price was ~~$500~~ $450.
On to-do lists, striking through tasks signals completion.
Digital text often uses strikethrough for humorous or ironic effect—saying something while pretending to unsay it.
- cancelingRevoking a prior arrangement
- crossing outCanceling with a line
- erasingRemoving recorded marks
- scratch outObliterate by marking over
- blazedBurned with intensity
paper · strikethrough · red pen · revision · edit · overcome · pencil · transcend · redaction · underline · breakthrough · annotation · formatting · negate · markup · mark up · confront · highlight
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Editorial "never mind"
highlighting · underlining · preserving · keeping · retaining
striking throughadding
Joining to increase
inserting · restoring · uncrossing · reinstating · reactivating
striking throughdeleting
Removing from existence
removing · obliterating · expunging · redacting · blacking out
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