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Stricken
Definitions
- 1 Struck by something.
"The town was stricken by a devastating earthquake that left many buildings in ruins."
- 2 Disabled or incapacitated by something.
"Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear."
- 3 Disabled or incapacitated by something.; Having its name removed from a country's naval register, e.g. the United States Naval Vessel Register.
- 1 (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming wordnet
- 2 grievously affected especially by disease wordnet
- 3 put out of action (by illness) wordnet
- 1 past participle of strike form-of, participle, past
"Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins like a veteran army that had marched down to drink, only to be stricken motionless at the water’s edge."
Etymology
From Middle English striken, ystriken, from Old English stricen, ġestricen, from Proto-West Germanic *strikan, from Proto-Germanic *strikanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *strīkaną (“to strike”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian strieken, Dutch gestreken, German Low German streken, German gestrichen.
From Middle English striken, ystriken, from Old English stricen, ġestricen, from Proto-West Germanic *strikan, from Proto-Germanic *strikanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *strīkaną (“to strike”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian strieken, Dutch gestreken, German Low German streken, German gestrichen.
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