stricken

American  

[strik-uhn] / ˈstrɪk ən /

verb

1. a past participle of strike.

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adjective

1. hit or wounded by a weapon, missile, or the like.

2. beset or afflicted, as with disease, trouble, or sorrow.

   stricken areas; a stricken family.

3. deeply affected, as with grief, fear, or other emotions.

4. characterized by or showing the effects of affliction, trouble, misfortune, a mental blow, etc..

   stricken features.

stricken British  

/ ˈstrɪkən /

adjective

1. laid low, as by disease or sickness

2. deeply affected, as by grief, love, etc

3. archaic wounded or injured

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Other Word Forms

• strickenly adverb
• unstricken adjective

Etymology

Origin of stricken

First recorded in 1530–40

Example Sentences

Then, as one day and another and another pass, we are all stricken with seasickness and grow weak from vomiting and dizzy spells.

From Literature

After his liberation, Kulisiewicz, stricken with tuberculosis, dictated “716 songs in many languages to a nurse who realized how valuable this material was.”

From The Wall Street Journal

What mattered was the look on the youngest’s face, stricken with a fear so great it was as though she herself were in that building.

From Literature

The stricken vessel was later found on a sandbank.

From Barron's

Maduro was at his side the rest of the way: serving in congress, then as foreign minister and vice president before Chávez, stricken with cancer, anointed him successor in 2013.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• harmed