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单词 stricken
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Definition of stricken in English:

stricken

verbˈstrɪk(ə)n
  • past participle of strike (sense 2 of the verb,
adjective ˈstrɪk(ə)nˈstrɪkən
  • 1Seriously affected by an undesirable condition or unpleasant feeling.

    the pilot landed the stricken aircraft
    Raymond was stricken with grief
    in combination the farms were drought-stricken
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Unfortunately, she was stricken with typhoid fever the second month in service.
    • The pressure of school tests is forcing children stricken with serious infections into school to sit exams.
    • Suddenly stricken with the urge to reach out and touch him, she did just that.
    • Anchorage and Oakton were stricken with fire, enclosed in a vast terrain of darkness.
    • Years afterward, the same nobleman's son who was saved from the bog was stricken with pneumonia.
    • Then in 2001, she was stricken with a yearlong illness and as a consequence lost her job.
    • When my dad was just a boy he was stricken with polio and forced to stay in a hospital for several years.
    • She glanced over her shoulder, stricken with a new feeling of jealousy.
    • God, whose plan is ineffable, foreordained that the heart of Jesus would be stricken with seven afflictions.
    • Two men stricken with the plague were going from merchant to merchant begging.
    • Though twice stricken with paralysis, he labored steadily until the fall of 1832.
    • Thomas was stricken with a headache so bad that it necessitated his removal from the flight.
    • He began perspiring, his hair stood on end, and he was understandably stricken with fear.
    • The weather was poor, and Henry's army was short of provisions, exhausted, and badly stricken with dysentery.
    • There's the dashing hero, a former pilot stricken with impending blindness who stoically refuses to be pitied.
    • Later he was stricken with grief for his mother, who died after a long slide into dementia.
    • She was stricken with immense pain and she immediately covered the injured optic orb with her hands.
    • In the days before her death she deteriorated quickly after being stricken with pneumonia.
    • So it is in the dog days of August when we are stricken with the feeling that there's nothing new under the sun.
    • He tried to protest, but he found that the right of him was stricken with sharp, slicing pain.
    Synonyms
    troubled, affected, deeply affected, afflicted, struck, hit, injured, wounded
    1. 1.1 (of a person's face or appearance) showing great distress.
      she looked at Anne's stricken face, contorted with worry
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He had a pale, stricken look on his face by the time we reached the school's spacious hall.
      • Less than a full hour into my set, the club owner burst into the DJ booth, a stricken look on his face.
      • The young man looked stricken and alarmed, jumping up quickly to hold out a hand.
      • When she opened her dark eyes they glistened with unshed tears, round in her pale and stricken face.
      • Casting one last stricken look at her, he ducked his head and ran towards the door.
      • The stricken look on his face tells us that the narcissist has no answer and never will.
      • Brian's face took on a stricken appearance, but he turned and walked off without a sound.
      • Seth caught a brief glimpse of her tear stricken face before she ran past him.
      • With a final stricken look at his uncomprehending face, Olivia steps out into the rain.
      • One of the most arresting images in this exhibition is the stricken face of a young woman.
      • His face was stricken with age, profound ringlets encircling his deep golden eyes.
      • Her face was stricken with fear until she calmed down and saw that we were on her side.
      • A stricken look crossed her face, and the danger to her and Bella really struck home.
      • Instead, I took one look at your stricken face and ran all the way to Piccadilly Circus.
      • He collapsed onto another chair and covered his tear stricken face with his hands.
      • Christy looked up at him and gave him such a fear stricken look that he felt powerful.
      • The young woman paled, her expression stricken as she looked down at his daughter.
      • He looked as stricken as I felt, remorse and guilt printed subtly on his patrician face.
      • Her voice was stricken with sadness, but I could also sense that she was worried.
      • Still she saw the stricken look on Ali's face and tears came to her eyes.

Phrases

  • stricken in years

    • archaic Old and feeble.

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Now King David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he could get no heat.
      • He was well stricken in years, and his days were numbered, and the mind was now engaged in following the backward tract of an eventful life, and apparently oblivious of the present sad surroundings.
      • Elizabeth was barren, and they were both well stricken in years.
      • As for these men who are stricken in years, their loins are as tender as those of a young animal that cannot walk.
      • When they were stricken in years, betwixt 70 and 80, there was a great election betwixt Hungerford and Putchin for the County of Leicester, such a one as never was before nor never since.

Rhymes

quicken, sicken, thicken, Wiccan
 
 

Definition of stricken in US English:

stricken

ˈstrikənˈstrɪkən
  • past participle of strike (sense 2 of the verb,
adjectiveˈstrikənˈstrɪkən
  • 1Seriously affected by an undesirable condition or unpleasant feeling.

    the pilot landed the stricken aircraft
    Raymond was stricken with grief
    in combination the farms were drought-stricken
    Example sentencesExamples
    • When my dad was just a boy he was stricken with polio and forced to stay in a hospital for several years.
    • The weather was poor, and Henry's army was short of provisions, exhausted, and badly stricken with dysentery.
    • Two men stricken with the plague were going from merchant to merchant begging.
    • In the days before her death she deteriorated quickly after being stricken with pneumonia.
    • Suddenly stricken with the urge to reach out and touch him, she did just that.
    • She was stricken with immense pain and she immediately covered the injured optic orb with her hands.
    • She glanced over her shoulder, stricken with a new feeling of jealousy.
    • He began perspiring, his hair stood on end, and he was understandably stricken with fear.
    • Later he was stricken with grief for his mother, who died after a long slide into dementia.
    • The pressure of school tests is forcing children stricken with serious infections into school to sit exams.
    • Unfortunately, she was stricken with typhoid fever the second month in service.
    • Though twice stricken with paralysis, he labored steadily until the fall of 1832.
    • Thomas was stricken with a headache so bad that it necessitated his removal from the flight.
    • There's the dashing hero, a former pilot stricken with impending blindness who stoically refuses to be pitied.
    • Years afterward, the same nobleman's son who was saved from the bog was stricken with pneumonia.
    • Then in 2001, she was stricken with a yearlong illness and as a consequence lost her job.
    • So it is in the dog days of August when we are stricken with the feeling that there's nothing new under the sun.
    • God, whose plan is ineffable, foreordained that the heart of Jesus would be stricken with seven afflictions.
    • Anchorage and Oakton were stricken with fire, enclosed in a vast terrain of darkness.
    • He tried to protest, but he found that the right of him was stricken with sharp, slicing pain.
    Synonyms
    troubled, affected, deeply affected, afflicted, struck, hit, injured, wounded
    1. 1.1 (of a person's face or appearance) showing great distress.
      she looked at Anne's stricken face, contorted with worry
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Instead, I took one look at your stricken face and ran all the way to Piccadilly Circus.
      • With a final stricken look at his uncomprehending face, Olivia steps out into the rain.
      • The stricken look on his face tells us that the narcissist has no answer and never will.
      • One of the most arresting images in this exhibition is the stricken face of a young woman.
      • He looked as stricken as I felt, remorse and guilt printed subtly on his patrician face.
      • Casting one last stricken look at her, he ducked his head and ran towards the door.
      • Less than a full hour into my set, the club owner burst into the DJ booth, a stricken look on his face.
      • He had a pale, stricken look on his face by the time we reached the school's spacious hall.
      • Christy looked up at him and gave him such a fear stricken look that he felt powerful.
      • Still she saw the stricken look on Ali's face and tears came to her eyes.
      • Seth caught a brief glimpse of her tear stricken face before she ran past him.
      • Her face was stricken with fear until she calmed down and saw that we were on her side.
      • The young man looked stricken and alarmed, jumping up quickly to hold out a hand.
      • He collapsed onto another chair and covered his tear stricken face with his hands.
      • The young woman paled, her expression stricken as she looked down at his daughter.
      • When she opened her dark eyes they glistened with unshed tears, round in her pale and stricken face.
      • A stricken look crossed her face, and the danger to her and Bella really struck home.
      • Her voice was stricken with sadness, but I could also sense that she was worried.
      • Brian's face took on a stricken appearance, but he turned and walked off without a sound.
      • His face was stricken with age, profound ringlets encircling his deep golden eyes.

Phrases

  • stricken in years

    • archaic Old and feeble.

      Example sentencesExamples
      • He was well stricken in years, and his days were numbered, and the mind was now engaged in following the backward tract of an eventful life, and apparently oblivious of the present sad surroundings.
      • Now King David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he could get no heat.
      • When they were stricken in years, betwixt 70 and 80, there was a great election betwixt Hungerford and Putchin for the County of Leicester, such a one as never was before nor never since.
      • Elizabeth was barren, and they were both well stricken in years.
      • As for these men who are stricken in years, their loins are as tender as those of a young animal that cannot walk.
 
 
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