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Definition of Stricken
1. Adjective. Grievously affected especially by disease.
2. Adjective. (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming. "Awe-struck"
3. Adjective. Put out of action (by illness).
Definition of Stricken
1. p. p. & a. Struck; smitten; wounded; as, the stricken deer.
Definition of Stricken
1. Adjective. struck by something ¹
2. Adjective. disabled or incapacitated by something ¹
3. Adjective. removed or rubbed out ¹
4. Verb. (past participle of strike) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Stricken
1. strongly affected or afflicted [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stricken
Literary usage of Stricken
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1919)
"... unless precluded by some providential cause from such prosecution, it shall
be stricken from the docket, and the judgment below shall stand affirmed. ..."
2. Journal by Indiana General Assembly. Senate, Indiana, General Assembly (1915)
"47, page 33, be stricken out. That the word "board" in line 14 and the word "of"
in line 15 ... 59, page 46, and the remainder of the sentence stricken out. ..."
3. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1907)
"stricken out by the circuit court as immaterial, the writ of habeas corpus was
... and as that answer was stricken out by the court below as immaterial, ..."
4. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer, Andrew Lang, Samuel Henry Butcher (1900)
"Thence we sailed onward stricken at heart, yet glad as men saved from death,
albeit we had lost our dear companions. ..."
5. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1904)
"... intriguing schemer, who was panic- stricken at the name of Napoleon, and guilty
through his blunders at Krasnoe and Berezina of robbing the Russian army ..."
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