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# stricken

«stricken» in Mova's school dictionary: **Badly affected by something bad, such as illness, sadness…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (stricken); old past participle of the verb strike

### meaning for a pupil

1) Badly affected by something bad, such as illness, sadness or disaster: a stricken ship, a grief-stricken family. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stricken/#m1)

2) Showing great shock or pain: a stricken face. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stricken/#m2)

3) (in compounds) panic-stricken, terror-stricken, poverty-stricken, grief-stricken. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stricken/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Used in news and stories about disasters and strong feelings: the stricken town after the earthquake, a stricken look. Compounds tell the reader what caused the suffering. Toad is «panic-stricken» when he thinks the police are coming.

### examples

- Rescue boats went out to the stricken ship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stricken/#x1)
- The grief-stricken family held each other. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stricken/#x2)
- Toad was panic-stricken at the sound of the police. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stricken/#x3)
- Aid was sent to the flood-stricken villages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stricken/#x4)
- She gave him a stricken look. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stricken/#x5)
- The poverty-stricken children had no shoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stricken/#x6)
- The stricken plane landed safely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stricken/#x7)
- Our poor man was stricken with fear and threw himself on the ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stricken/#x8)

### note

Today the normal past form of strike is «struck»; «stricken» survives mostly as an adjective. «Struck by lightning», but «panic-stricken».

### In the corpora

- [And Abraham was old, well stricken in age; and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.621/)
- [NOW KING David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he could get no heat.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.0/)
- [On what part will ye yet be stricken, seeing ye stray away more and more?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.4/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «stricken» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/stricken/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.