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a
: afflicted or overwhelmed by or as if by disease, misfortune, or sorrow
… hastened out, with a stricken conscience, to remedy the omission.—George Eliot
—often used with by or with —often used in combinationtoo stricken by terror to speak
a family stricken with grief
disease-stricken
b
: made incapable or unfit
rescuers were sent to the stricken ship
2
: hit or wounded by or as if by a missile
the deer had been stricken by an arrow
stricken
2 of 2past participle of strike entry 1
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“Stricken.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stricken. Accessed 1 Sep. 2026.
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