Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Struck or wounded, as by a projectile.
- adjective Affected by something overwhelming, such as disease, trouble, or painful emotion.
- adjective Incapacitated; disabled.
- adjective Having the contents made even with the top of a measuring device or container; level.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Struck; smitten: as, the stricken deer.
- Advanced; far gone.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- past participle Struck; smitten; wounded.
- past participle Worn out; far gone; advanced. See
Strike , v. t., 21. - past participle Scot. Whole; entire; -- said of the hour as marked by the striking of a clock.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
struck by something. - adjective
disabled orincapacitated by something. - adjective
removed orrubbed out . - adjective having its name removed from a country's naval register, e.g. the United States Naval Vessel Register.
- verb Past participle of
strike
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming
- adjective grievously affected especially by disease
- adjective put out of action (by illness)
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word stricken.
Examples
-
A moment later they began to play the ethereal string tremolo that introduces "The Blue Danube," and as that first familiar phrase rose on the French horn, people rose to their feet in stricken silence.
-
A moment later they began to play the ethereal string tremolo that introduces "The Blue Danube," and as that first familiar phrase rose on the French horn, people rose to their feet in stricken silence.
-
Beer is always an excellent choice at a reasonable cost, although Bud Lite, Coors Lite and Millers Lite must be stricken from the grocery list.
-
A moment later they began to play the ethereal string tremolo that introduces "The Blue Danube," and as that first familiar phrase rose on the French horn, people rose to their feet in stricken silence.
-
Philadelphia, 13 February 1969, where she remained until 1 June 1973 when she was stricken from the Navy list.
-
There is a word I think that has been stricken from the conservative vocabulary.
-
Has freedom of speech been stricken from the constitution?
-
A moment later they began to play the ethereal string tremolo that introduces "The Blue Danube," and as that first familiar phrase rose on the French horn, people rose to their feet in stricken silence.
-
That answer was stricken from the record by the judge, Gerald I. Fisher, apparently because Arevalos had been in jail and did not have direct knowledge of what happened to the items.
-
It's not that the Offertory proper has been stricken from the Mass.
cosmican commented on the word stricken
Grievously affected by something overwhelming
Ex: stricken poverty
November 20, 2007