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stricken

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 struck by something. 2 disabled or incapacitated by something. 3 removed or rubbed out. 4 #(lb en warships) Having its name removed from a country's naval register, e.g. the United States (w: Naval Vessel Register). v (past participle of strike English) ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Stricken " is a song by the American heavy metal band Disturbed . The song was released on July 25, 2005 as the second single from their third studio album Ten Thousand Fists . "Stricken" was certified gold in the United States by the Recording Industry ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1510s, "wounded, affected (by disease, trouble, etc.)," adjective use of archaic past participle of strike (v.). Figurative meaning "overwhelmed with terror, grief, etc." is from 1530s. An earlier development is reflected in 13c. phrase striken in elde ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. grievously affected especially by disease [syn: afflicted ] (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming; "conscience-smitten"; "awe-struck" [syn: smitten , struck ] put out of action (by illness) [syn: laid low(p) ]

Usage examples of stricken.

It was Monsignor Marbot who went in procession to the battlefield of the Marne with crucifix and banner and white-robed acolytes, and in an allocution of singular beauty consecrated those stricken fields with the last rites of the Church.

Then I being stricken with great pleasure, and desirous to embrace him, could not thoroughly asswage my delight, but alas by evill ill chance the oyle of the lampe fortuned to fall on his shoulder which caused him to awake, and seeing me armed with fire and weapons, gan say, How darest thou be so bold to doe so great a mischiefe?

In the delicious contemplation of Hortensia in tears beside him stricken all but to the point of death, he forgot entirely his erstwhile scruples that being nameless he had no name to offer her.

Morning brought consciousness to the stricken man, and Malemute Kid bent closer to catch his whispers.

Meanwhile, the king and queen had been stricken with a wasting illness from which diviners said they could only recover if Pali Kongju would aid them by fetching the medicinal water from the Western Sky.

Some in the participle passive likewise take en, as stricken, strucken, drunken, bounden.

For although that most just man, Job, was stricken, yet he was not so particularly or directly in respect of the procreant function.

Tshamarra to the procurer, who made a startled, strangled sound as his stricken lady ended up draped over his head, and turned her attention back to Hawkril and her father.

The procurer shot a look of alarm up at Hawkril, who shrugged helplessly and bent over the stricken sorceress.

In fact, after the stricken Brauchitsch had left his presence he had the order reconfirmed by telephone to Zossen.

The woman, a 46-year-old Boston accountant with irreversible restenosis of the heart, responded so well to the replacement of her defective heart with a Jarvik IX Exterior Artificial Heart that within weeks she was able to resume the active lifestyle she had so enjoyed before stricken, pursuing her active schedule with the extraordinary prosthesis portably installed in a stylish Etienne Aigner purse.

Then a twelve-year-old girl living at Sandia Park in the mountains above Albuquerque was stricken with the plague and died en route to a hospital.

He recognised that Vane, poverty stricken scribbler though he might be, was a gentleman.

Braggen looked on, stunned still with embarrassment, the High Earl straightened up, stricken.

Thus Theos inwardly raved, without any real comprehension of his own thoughts, but only stricken anew by a feverish passion of mingled love and hatred as he stared on the witching sorceress whose marvellous beauty was such wonder and torture to his eyes, .