stricken
adjective /ˈstrɪkən/
  /ˈstrɪkən/
 (formal)- seriously affected by an unpleasant feeling or disease or by a difficult situation- She raised her stricken face and begged for help.
- We went to the aid of the stricken boat.
- stricken with/by something Whole villages were stricken with the disease.
- He was stricken by a heart attack on his fiftieth birthday.
 
- (in compounds) seriously affected by the thing mentioned- poverty-stricken families