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A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.
William C. Bryant

Meaning of "stricken" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD STRICKEN

Past participle of strike.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF STRICKEN

stricken  [ˈstrɪkən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STRICKEN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Stricken is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES STRICKEN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of stricken in the English dictionary

The first definition of stricken in the dictionary is laid low, as by disease or sickness. Other definition of stricken is deeply affected, as by grief, love, etc. Stricken is also wounded or injured.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH STRICKEN


African
ˈæfrɪkən
American
əˈmɛrɪkən
Armorican
ɑːˈmɒrɪkən
Asian-American
ˈeɪʒənəˈmerɪkən
awe-stricken
ˈɔːˌstrɪkən
awestricken
ˈɔːˌstrɪkən
bricken
ˈbrɪkən
horror-stricken
ˈhɒrəˌstrɪkən
hurricane
ˈhʌrɪkən
Latino-American
læˈtiːnəʊəˌmerɪkən
love-stricken
ˈlʌvstrɪkən
lovestricken
ˈlʌvstrɪkən
Meso-American
ˌmiːzəʊəˈmɛrɪkən
Mesoamerican
ˌmɛsəʊəˈmɛrɪkən
Mexican
ˈmɛksɪkən
moonstricken
ˈmuːnˌstrɪkən
plague-stricken
ˈpleɪɡˌstrɪkən
planet-stricken
ˈplænɪtˌstrɪkən
taken
ˈteɪkən
thunderstricken
ˈθʌndəˌstrɪkən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STRICKEN

striate
striated
striated muscle
striation
striatum
striature
strich
strick
strickenly
strickle
strict
strict counterpoint
strict inclusion
strict liability
striction
strictish
strictly
strictness
stricture
strictured

WORDS THAT END LIKE STRICKEN

chicken
conscience-stricken
coronation chicken
Digby chicken
drucken
free-range chicken
grief-stricken
like a headless chicken
mobile phone chicken
Mother Carey´s chicken
no chicken
panic-stricken
poverty-stricken
prairie chicken
quicken
requicken
she is no spring chicken
sicken
spring chicken
terror-stricken
thicken

Synonyms and antonyms of stricken in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «STRICKEN»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «stricken» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of stricken

Translation of «stricken» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF STRICKEN

Find out the translation of stricken to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of stricken from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «stricken» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

灾区
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

afectada
570 millions of speakers

English

stricken
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

त्रस्त
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المنكوبة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

пораженный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ferido
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অভিভূত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

sinistré
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Terjejas
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

stricken
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

襲われた
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

재해 지에의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Stricken
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bị ảnh hưởng mạnh
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வாடுகின்றவன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

त्रस्त
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

muzdârip
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

colpito
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

stricken
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

уражений
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

lovite
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πληγείσες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

geteisterde
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

drabbade
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

rammet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of stricken

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STRICKEN»

The term «stricken» is quite widely used and occupies the 24.341 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «STRICKEN» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «stricken» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «stricken» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about stricken

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10 QUOTES WITH «STRICKEN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word stricken.
1
William C. Bryant
A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.
2
Pauline Collins
Certainly, I, as an audience, am stricken with terror if I see only two people onstage. And one person, I think, is even harder for people to take.
3
Norm Dicks
The American people are going to judge the majority party here today. If they go out here and vote for this rule that allows this provision to be stricken, they are voting against the men and women in the military of our country.
4
Georges Duhamel
In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.
5
Edna Ferber
A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.
6
Henry Fonda
I don't know what was in his mind, but I do know Ford was stricken by what he had done, by hitting me.
7
Laurie Graham
My husband is stricken with dementia, and it's a trick of his condition that events and people from his past are more real to him than what happened five minutes ago.
8
George Grosz
Peace was declared, but not all of us were drunk with joy or stricken blind.
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Dorothea Lange
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.
10
Petrarch
Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STRICKEN»

Discover the use of stricken in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to stricken and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Stricken Field: A Novel
Martha Gellhorn was one of the first—and most widely read—female war correspondents of the twentieth century.
Martha Gellhorn, 2011
2
Cambodia: Report From a Stricken Land
Based on his observations over three decades, Henry Kamm, Pulitzer Prize-winning NEW YORK TIMES Southeast Asia correspondent, unravels the complexities of Cambodia.
Henry Kamm, 2011
3
Stricken: Voices from the Hidden Epidemic of Chronic Fatigue ...
severity of a patient's symptoms?6 Stricken is not only a collection of literary writings about the CFIDS epidemic, but a critique of the mythology and language surrounding an illness population and a collection of its untold stories. Stricken ...
Peggy Munson, 2014
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Stricken by God?: nonviolent identification and the victory ...
This distinctively panoramic volume offers fresh perspectives on these and other difficult questions reemerging throughout the church today.Contributors: James Alison Kharalambos Anstall Mark D. Baker Sharon Baker Anthony Bartlett Marcus ...
Brad Jersak, Michael Hardin, 2007
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Voyage to a Stricken Land: A Woman Reporter's Battlefield ...
Voyage to a Stricken Land offers a cogent, personal history of one of America's most controversial conflicts. 16 black-and-white photographs.
Sara Daniel, 2012
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Stricken Field: The Little Bighorn Since 1876
The Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument is the site of one of America's most famous armed struggles, but the events surrounding Custer's defeat there in 1876 are only the beginning of the story.
Jerome A. Greene, 2008
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Healing the broken-hearted: consoling the grief-stricken
On organizing a parish program to console the grief-stricken.
Terence P. Curley, 1995
8
The Stricken Field
Dave Duncan. CONTENTS Prologue ONE Auld acquaintances TWO Lonesome road THREE Doubt and sorrow FOUR Remedies refusing FIVE Signifying nothing Interlude SIX Westward look SEVEN We happy few EIGHT Afterwards ...
Dave Duncan, 2014
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Sithron, the Star-Stricken
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process.
Richard H. Horne, 2008
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Tips for managing drought-stricken cottonwoods along the ...
Robert L. Johnson, Southern Forest Experiment Station (New Orleans, La.) 3 4. Large crown, 10-20 percent dieback. Medium crown, 30-40 percent dieback. Small crown, 70-80 percent dieback Figure 2. — Crown size and amount of initial die- ...
Robert L. Johnson, Southern Forest Experiment Station (New Orleans, La.), 1965

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STRICKEN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term stricken is used in the context of the following news items.
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Drought stricken KwaZulu-Natal braces itself for flooding - MEC
“We are battling a complex environmental situation whereby a drought stricken province is expecting heavy rainfall. This seems like a blessing but the intensity ... «eNCA, Jul 15»
2
'Cold callers killed my cancer-stricken husband by phoning up to 12 …
A grieving widow says cold callers who bombarded her cancer-stricken husband eight to 12 times a day finished him off. Barbara Gray, 61, is convinced the ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»
3
City in Drought-Stricken California Forced to Dump 550000 Gallons …
Hundreds of thousands of gallons of water went to waste in California at a time when water conservation efforts are more serious than ever for the ... «ABC News, Jul 15»
4
Over 8000 Yemenis stricken with Dengue fever
Speaking exclusively to Anadolu Agency, Abdel Nasser al-Waly said that “the number of those stricken with Dengue fever in Aden has increased remarkably ... «Anadolu Agency, Jun 15»
5
Storm chasers rescue stricken antelope calf battered in hailstorm
June 24, 2015: A pair of US storm chases stumbled upon a calf that was attempting to shelter underneath a bush for cover from the hail, and rescued the animal ... «9news.com.au, Jun 15»
6
Grand Island woman, 59, dies after being stricken in Tonawanda jail …
A 59-year-old Grand Island woman arrested Wednesday evening in the Town of Tonawanda for driving while ability impaired suffered a medical emergency in ... «Buffalo News, May 15»
7
Tourism plan for drought-stricken outback
Tourism plan for drought-stricken outback ... living in the state's southeast are being urged to holiday in the outback to help drought-stricken towns. PREMIER ... «NEWS.com.au, May 15»
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Instagram Deletes Profile Accounting Journey Of Cancer-Stricken
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — The mother of a young child who battled a rare cancer for over a year is fighting Instagram after the social media service ... «CBS Local, May 15»
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Medford Student Invents Robot To Help Cancer-Stricken Teacher
Raymond created a robot that allowed his cancer-stricken teacher to oversee his classroom while recovering from a stem cell transplant at his home. “We started ... «Patch.com, May 15»
10
Drought-stricken locals tell their stories
It's been years since farmers in Central West New South Wales have seen proper rain. The Abbott government has promised to send funding relief their way in ... «Sky News Australia, May 15»

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