stricken
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈstɹɪkən/
Adjective

stricken

  1. Struck by something.
  2. 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.
  3. 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."
    1. (warships) Having its name removed from a country's naval register, e.g. the United States Naval Vessel Register.
Translations Verb
  1. Past participle of strike



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