Crossword clues for stricken
stricken
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stricken \Strick"en\, p. p. & a. from Strike.
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Struck; smitten; wounded; as, the stricken deer.
Note: [See Strike, n.]
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Worn out; far gone; advanced. See Strike, v. t., 21.
Abraham was old and well stricken in age.
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Whole; entire; -- said of the hour as marked by the striking of a clock. [Scot.]
He persevered for a stricken hour in such a torrent of unnecessary tattle.
--Sir W. Scott.Speeches are spoken by the stricken hour, day after day, week, perhaps, after week.
--Bayne.
Strike \Strike\, v. t. [imp. Struck; p. p. Struck, Stricken( Stroock, Strucken, Obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. Striking. Struck is more commonly used in the p. p. than stricken.] [OE. striken to strike, proceed, flow, AS. str[=i]can to go, proceed, akin to D. strijken to rub, stroke, strike, to move, go, G. streichen, OHG. str[=i]hhan, L. stringere to touch lightly, to graze, to strip off (but perhaps not to L. stringere in sense to draw tight), striga a row, a furrow. Cf. Streak, Stroke.]
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To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument or missile.
He at Philippi kept His sword e'en like a dancer; while I struck The lean and wrinkled Cassius.
--Shak. To come in collision with; to strike against; as, a bullet struck him; the wave struck the boat amidships; the ship struck a reef.
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To give, as a blow; to impel, as with a blow; to give a force to; to dash; to cast.
They shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two sideposts.
--Ex. xii. 7.Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow.
--Byron. To stamp or impress with a stroke; to coin; as, to strike coin from metal: to strike dollars at the mint.
To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate; to set in the earth; as, a tree strikes its roots deep.
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To punish; to afflict; to smite.
To punish the just is not good, nor strike princes for equity.
--Prov. xvii. 26. To cause to sound by one or more beats; to indicate or notify by audible strokes; as, the clock strikes twelve; the drums strike up a march.
To lower; to let or take down; to remove; as, to strike sail; to strike a flag or an ensign, as in token of surrender; to strike a yard or a topmast in a gale; to strike a tent; to strike the centering of an arch.
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To make a sudden impression upon, as by a blow; to affect sensibly with some strong emotion; as, to strike the mind, with surprise; to strike one with wonder, alarm, dread, or horror.
Nice works of art strike and surprise us most on the first view.
--Atterbury.They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.
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To affect in some particular manner by a sudden impression or impulse; as, the plan proposed strikes me favorably; to strike one dead or blind.
How often has stricken you dumb with his irony!
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To cause or produce by a stroke, or suddenly, as by a stroke; as, to strike a light.
Waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes a universal peace through sea and land.
--Milton. To cause to ignite; as, to strike a match.
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To make and ratify; as, to strike a bargain.
Note: Probably borrowed from the L. f[oe]dus ferrire, to strike a compact, so called because an animal was struck and killed as a sacrifice on such occasions.
To take forcibly or fraudulently; as, to strike money.
To level, as a measure of grain, salt, or the like, by scraping off with a straight instrument what is above the level of the top.
(Masonry) To cut off, as a mortar joint, even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly; as, my eye struck a strange word; they soon struck the trail.
To borrow money of; to make a demand upon; as, he struck a friend for five dollars. [Slang]
To lade into a cooler, as a liquor.
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To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
Behold, I thought, He will . . . strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
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To advance; to cause to go forward; -- used only in past participle. ``Well struck in years.'' --Shak. To strike an attitude, To strike a balance. See under Attitude, and Balance. To strike a jury (Law), to constitute a special jury ordered by a court, by each party striking out a certain number of names from a prepared list of jurors, so as to reduce it to the number of persons required by law. --Burrill. To strike a lead.
(Mining) To find a vein of ore.
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Fig.: To find a way to fortune. [Colloq.] To strike a ledger or To strike an account, to balance it. To strike hands with.
To shake hands with.
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To make a compact or agreement with; to agree with. To strike off.
To erase from an account; to deduct; as, to strike off the interest of a debt.
(Print.) To impress; to print; as, to strike off a thousand copies of a book.
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To separate by a blow or any sudden action; as, to strike off what is superfluous or corrupt. To strike oil, to find petroleum when boring for it; figuratively, to make a lucky hit financially. [Slang, U.S.] To strike one luck, to shake hands with one and wish good luck. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. To strike out.
To produce by collision; to force out, as, to strike out sparks with steel.
To blot out; to efface; to erase. ``To methodize is as necessary as to strike out.''
--Pope.To form by a quick effort; to devise; to invent; to contrive, as, to strike out a new plan of finance.
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(Baseball) To cause a player to strike out; -- said of the pitcher. See To strike out, under Strike, v. i. To strike sail. See under Sail. To strike up.
To cause to sound; to begin to beat. ``Strike up the drums.''
--Shak.To begin to sing or play; as, to strike up a tune.
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To raise (as sheet metal), in making diahes, pans, etc., by blows or pressure in a die.
To strike work, to quit work; to go on a strike.
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 "advanced in years," from strike in the sense of "to move, go," hence "far advanced."
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)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Stricken may refer to:
- "Stricken" (song), a 2005 song by Disturbed
- Strike from the record, testimony or evidence disallowed from being legally considered
- Stricken (2010 film), a 2010 American film directed by Matthew Sconce
- Stricken (2009 film), a 2009 Dutch drama film
- "Being stricken", a slang term for having a heart attack, or other life-threatening ailment
"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 Association of America on August 18, 2008 for selling 500,000 copies. It is one of the first of Disturbed's songs to include a guitar solo. The song is featured in Guitar Hero III and Guitar Hero Live in addition to the Disturbed track pack in Guitar Hero 5. The song is also a part of the Rock Band downloadable content catalog. The song was also featured in the Project Gotham Racing 4. The music video for the song was filmed in an abandoned hospital in which some scenes from the 1984 horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street were filmed. "Stricken" was used as official theme for WWE's PPV New Year's Revolution, in 2006.
Stricken is an American film that premiered on June 25, 2010, It was directed and written by Matthew Sconce, the movie starred Stephanie French and David Fine of Rent, Sweet November, The Pursuit of Happiness, and many other films. It is based on the short film of the same name that won Best Sound Design at the Action On Film Festival in 2007, and its screenplay won Best Adapted Screenplay in 2008.
Stricken is a 2009 Dutch drama film directed and produced by Reinout Oerlemans and based on the book by the same name by writer Ray Kluun.
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, .