STRICKEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stricken mean? 

• STRICKEN (adjective)
  The adjective STRICKEN has 3 senses:

1. grievously affected especially by disease

2. (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming

3. put out of action (by illness)

  Familiarity information: STRICKEN used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STRICKEN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Grievously affected especially by disease

Synonyms:

afflicted; stricken

Similar:

ill; sick (affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(used in combination) affected by something overwhelming

Synonyms:

smitten; stricken; struck

Context example:

awe-struck

Similar:

affected (acted upon; influenced)

Domain usage:

combining form (a bound form used only in compounds)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Put out of action (by illness)

Synonyms:

laid low; stricken

Similar:

ill; sick (affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function)

 Context examples 

I asked him, terror-stricken, leaning on the arm he held out to support me: Has a body come ashore?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

That being done, he felt that he was ready to 'hide his stricken heart, and still toil on'.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Since her last conversation with Mrs. Weston and Mr. Knightley, she was more conscience-stricken about Jane Fairfax than she had often been.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The dog-musher surveyed the stricken dog.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I have seen him with these two eyes in a stricken field, and never did man carry himself better.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then he stood, without movement, as before, the stricken wolf rolling in agony behind him.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

She rose obedient, but when she have made a step she stopped, and stood as one stricken.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was a sorely stricken man who lay before us.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I stared at it horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There remain three persons who have been grievously stricken by some conscious or unconscious human agency. That is firm ground.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)