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.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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