stricken
adjective
strick·en ˈstri-kən 
1
a
: afflicted or overwhelmed by or as if by disease, misfortune, or sorrow
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
Example Sentences
I saw her stricken face looking up at us.
Recent Examples on the Web At a wind farm outside of Crowell, a town just southeast of the Panhandle, the stricken turbine continued to spin, sending smoky rings into the air as the fire spread throughout the machine. 
Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 24 July 2022 Similar scenes of misery played out across the stricken region as day broke on Thursday, after a night of rain that washed away roads, hampered rescue efforts and drenched the newly homeless. Haq Nawaz Khan, Washington Post, 23 June 2022 Mercedes’s George Russell got out of his stricken car and ran across to check on Zhou. Reuters, NBC News, 4 July 2022 Carnegie endowed the hero fund after the Harwick mine disaster In 1904 near Pittsburgh claimed 181 lives — including those of an engineer and a miner who went into the stricken mine in an attempt to rescue others. Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 28 June 2022 The reformers tempered the stricken conscience with the fear that overhasty legislation would bring on socialism. Dominic Green, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2022 At a glance, providing the stricken country with another way to access the Internet in the longer term—aside from a vulnerable undersea cable—seems like a helpful development. Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2022 Hours after the attack, plumes of smoke were still rising from the stricken facility on the western edges of Lviv. Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2022 The stricken mountain region has seen similar catastrophes in recent decades, including one that caused more than 900 deaths. chicagotribune.com, 17 Feb. 2022 See More
Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 24 July 2022 Similar scenes of misery played out across the stricken region as day broke on Thursday, after a night of rain that washed away roads, hampered rescue efforts and drenched the newly homeless. Haq Nawaz Khan, Washington Post, 23 June 2022 Mercedes’s George Russell got out of his stricken car and ran across to check on Zhou. Reuters, NBC News, 4 July 2022 Carnegie endowed the hero fund after the Harwick mine disaster In 1904 near Pittsburgh claimed 181 lives — including those of an engineer and a miner who went into the stricken mine in an attempt to rescue others. Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 28 June 2022 The reformers tempered the stricken conscience with the fear that overhasty legislation would bring on socialism. Dominic Green, WSJ, 22 Apr. 2022 At a glance, providing the stricken country with another way to access the Internet in the longer term—aside from a vulnerable undersea cable—seems like a helpful development. Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2022 Hours after the attack, plumes of smoke were still rising from the stricken facility on the western edges of Lviv. Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2022 The stricken mountain region has seen similar catastrophes in recent decades, including one that caused more than 900 deaths. chicagotribune.com, 17 Feb. 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
Middle English striken, from past participle of striken to strike
First Known Use
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a
Phrases Containing stricken
Kids Definition
stricken
adjective
strick·en ˈstri-kən
1
: showing the effect of disease, misfortune, or sorrow
a grief-stricken look
2
: hit or wounded by or as if by an object that was shot or thrown