Stricken

//ˈstɹɪkən// adj, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Struck by something.

    "The town was stricken by a devastating earthquake that left many buildings in ruins."

  2. 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. 3
    Disabled or incapacitated by something.; Having its name removed from a country's naval register, e.g. the United States Naval Vessel Register.
Adjective
  1. 1
    (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming wordnet
  2. 2
    grievously affected especially by disease wordnet
  3. 3
    put out of action (by illness) wordnet
Verb
  1. 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

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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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