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Definitions for stricken
ˈstrɪk ənstrick·en

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. afflicted, strickenadjective

    grievously affected especially by disease

  2. smitten, stricken, struckadjective

    (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming

    "conscience-smitten"; "awe-struck"

  3. laid low(p), strickenadjective

    put out of action (by illness)

Wiktionary

  1. strickenadjective

    struck by something

  2. strickenadjective

    disabled or incapacitated by something

  3. strickenadjective

    removed or rubbed out

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Strickenthe ancient participle of strike.

    The cunningest mariners were so conquered by the storm, as they thought it best with stricken sails to yield to be governed by it. Philip Sidney.

    That shall I shew, as sure as hound
    The stricken deer doth challenge by the bleeding wound. F. Q.

    Abraham and Sarah were old, and well stricken in age. Gen.

    With blindness were these stricken. Wisd. xix. 17.

    Parker and Vaughan, having had a controversy touching certain arms, were appointed to run some courses, when Parker was stricken into the mouth at the first course. Francis Bacon.

    Though the earl of Ulster was of greater power than any other subject in Ireland, yet was he so far stricken in years, as that he was unable to manage the martial affairs. Davies.

Wikipedia

  1. Stricken

    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 musical 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.

ChatGPT

  1. stricken

    Stricken typically refers to being seriously affected by an undesirable condition or unpleasant feeling such as disease, disaster, grief, or fear. It can also mean being hit or wounded by a weapon, missile, or harmful event. The term describes a state of intense affliction, trouble, or suffering.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Stricken

    struck; smitten; wounded; as, the stricken deer

  2. Strickennoun

    worn out; far gone; advanced. See Strike, v. t., 21

  3. Strickenverb

    whole; entire; -- said of the hour as marked by the striking of a clock

  4. Stricken

    of Strike

Wikidata

  1. Stricken

    "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 on Guitar Hero III and is featured again as part of 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.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Stricken

    strik′n (B.), pa.p. of strike.—Stricken in years, advanced in years.—A stricken hour, an hour as marked by the clock.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of stricken in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of stricken in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of stricken in a Sentence

  1. Stanley Patz:

    I'm so convinced that Pedro Hernandez kidnapped and killed my son, he's a guilty man who's been conscience-stricken due to his deeds and haunted by demons ever since that day.

  2. Horace Greeley:

    We have stricken the shackles from 4,000,000 human beings and brought all labourers to a common level, but not so much by the elevation of former slaves as by reducing the whole working population, white and black, to a condition of serfdom. While boasting of our noble deeds, we are careful to conceal the ugly fact that by our iniquitous money system we have manipulated a system of oppression which, though more refined, is no less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.

  3. President Obama:

    As we have more information, we'll let the public know, but in the meantime I'd ask all Americans to pray for the families who are grief stricken at this point, and I want everybody to understand we will be thorough and prompt in figuring out exactly what happened.

  4. Mona Hardin:

    Just trying to... bring it into reality, that this has happened to my son, grief stricken isn't the word, it's horrific, it's so evil.

  5. Lewis Mumford:

    A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

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