stricken
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈstɹɪkən/
stricken
- Struck by something.
- Disabled or incapacitated by something.
- 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter III, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, OCLC 40817384 ↗:
- 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.
- Removed or rubbed out.
, From the trial of Pigasus - "MR. KUNSTLER: Were you informed by an officer that the pig had squealed on you? MR. FORAN: Objection. I ask it be stricken."
- (warships) Having its name removed from a country's naval register, e.g. the United States Naval Vessel Register.
- German: ergriffen, heimgesucht, betroffen, verwundet, gedrückt
- Past participle of strike
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