stricken

Universal Words adjective (formal) 1 ~ (with sb/sth) seriously affected by an unpleasant feeling or disease or by a difficult situation: She raised her stricken face and begged for help. * Whole villages were stricken with the disease. * We went to the aid of the stricken boat. 2 (in compounds) seriously affected by the thing mentioned: poverty-stricken families seealsoPANIC-STRICKEN, GRIEF-STRICKEN, HORROR-STRICKEN, STRIKEv.