struck

[struhk]

verb

1. the simple past tense and a past participle of strike.

adjective

1. (of a factory, industry, etc.) closed or otherwise affected by a strike of workers.

2. overcome, obsessed, or deeply affected by a specified person, feeling, or thing (used in combination).

   Ichabod was horror-struck on perceiving that the rider was headless.

   If you know any stagestruck youngsters begging for ballet lessons, these new dance books will get them off on the right foot.

struck

/ strʌk /

verb

1. the past tense and past participle of strike

adjective

1. (of an industry, factory, etc) shut down or otherwise affected by a labour strike

Word History and Origins

Origin of struck¹

First recorded in 1890–95 struck for def. 2

Example Sentences

Around 4.3 billion years ago, when the solar system was still young, a massive asteroid struck the far side of the moon.

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His velocity gradually improved, but remained mostly struck in the mid-90s.

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The driver and a passenger of the other car that was struck were also injured; both have filed a lawsuit against the city for their injuries.

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Two months later, Allen Kowalski, 27, was killed when a load toppled off a forklift and struck him.

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On October 5, one drone guided by a thread of optical fibre several-dozen-kilometres-long struck a vehicle in the centre of Kramatorsk, a first for the city.

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