stricken

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɹɪkən/

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• Rhymes: -ɪkən

Adjective

stricken (comparative more stricken, superlative most stricken)

1. Struck by something. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. Disabled or incapacitated by something.
   • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, Nobody, chapter III:

     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. Removed or rubbed out.
   1. (warships) Having its name removed from a country's naval register, e.g. the United States Naval Vessel Register.

Verb

stricken

1. past participle of strike
   • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:

     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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃtʀɪkŋ̩/, /ˈʃtʀɪkən/

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Verb

stricken (third-person singular simple present strickt, past tense strickte, past participle gestrickt, auxiliary haben)

1. (now rare or figurative) to tie, to knot
2. to knit

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