adjective
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Struck by something.
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Disabled or incapacitated by something.
verb
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(sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate.
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Please strike the last sentence.
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(physical) To have a sharp or sudden effect.
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To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate.
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A tree strikes its roots deep.
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(personal, social) To have a sharp or severe effect.
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To touch; to act by appulse.
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To take down, especially in the following contexts.
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To set off on a walk or trip.
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They struck off along the river.
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To pass with a quick or strong effect; to dart; to penetrate.
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To break forth; to commence suddenly; with into.
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to strike into reputation; to strike into a run
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To become attached to something; said of the spat of oysters.
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To make and ratify.
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to strike a bargain
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To level (a measure of grain, salt, etc.) with a straight instrument, scraping off what is above the level of the top.
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To cut off (a mortar joint, etc.) even with the face of the wall, or inward at a slight angle.
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To hit upon, or light upon, suddenly.
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My eye struck a strange word in the text. They soon struck the trail.
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(sugar-making) To lade thickened sugar cane juice from a teache into a cooler.
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To stroke or pass lightly; to wave.
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To advance; to cause to go forward; used only in the past participle.
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To balance (a ledger or account).
Examples of stricken in a Sentence
Stricken, she wrapped her arms around her knees and began to cry.
Herod was stricken with an incurable disease.
Henry, stricken with sore disease, was unable to reap the advantage.
With the exceptions of 1891 and 1894, every year in the period 1891-1900 was stricken by drought.
Here he remained for the rest of his life, with occasional visits to Honolulu, until he became stricken with leprosy in 1885.
The captain is last to leave his stricken ship.
Subsequently he entered holy orders, and in c. 1120, being stricken with fever while on a pilgrimage to Rome, vowed that he would found a hospital in London.
Wherever we were wounded and stricken her heart bled in sympathy, and all our maladies and miseries evoked from her a lyric wail."
It seems strange to us that they are not stricken dumb by the new and awful solemnity of their position.
The tour included Neil in the Lifeboat simulator going to the aid of a stricken oil tanker which was on fire!
Henceforth the influence of Russia over Poland was steadily to increase, without any struggle at all, the Republic being already stricken with that creeping paralysis which ultimately left her a prey to her neighbours.
The immediate results of the stricken field were, however, but small.
Stricken with terror, Ivor thought he could see goblins and hobgoblins grinning wherever his lantern light flashed.
In 1347 Florence was again stricken with famine, followed the next year by the most terrible plague it had ever experienced, which carried off three-fifths of the population (according to now threatened Florence in the person of Castruccio p Villani).
Under their influence a new National Assembly met at Troezene in March 1827 and elected as president Count Capo d'Istria, formerly Russian minister for foreign affairs; at the same time a new constitution was promulgated which, when the very life of the insurrection seemed on the point of flickering out, set forth the full ideal of Pan-Hellenic dreams. Anarchy followed; war of Rumeliotes against Moreotes, of chief against chief; rival factions bombarded each other from the two forts at Nauplia over the stricken town, and in derision of the impotent government.
He was early familiar with the works of Matthew Arnold, Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer; he preached his Bible Studies sermons in 1878, when the higher criticism was wholly unknown to most evangelical ministers or known only to be dreaded; and his sermons on Evolution and Religion in 1885, when many of the ministry were denouncing evolution as atheistic. He was stricken with apoplexy while still active in the ministry, and died at Brooklyn on the 8th of March 1887, in the seventy-fourth year of his age.
Stricken by remorse, she entered torpor and was revived by Nanna with his own blood, shortly before the founding of Rome.
They revealed the stricken life assurer may not be able to meet its minimum solvency requirement or to repay its £ 346m in bonds.
The tour included Neil in the Lifeboat simulator going to the aid of a stricken oil tanker which was on fire !
The stricken yacht had no power, its anchor chain caught, perhaps round the prop.
A Chinese tug got a line to the stricken vessel.
He was injured whilst parachuting from the stricken aircraft.
This is particularly remarkable given the almost continued decimation of this stricken people and land by a succession of brutal, self-serving rulers.
It doesn't take long before those tiny creatures work their way into our hearts, and there is nothing worse than having to make the choice to put your pet down, especially if you have children who are also grief stricken.
For example, if you were a victim of identity theft, state that you would like the debt stricken from your records completely.
Fresh water is also a concern for drought stricken areas versus areas where floods occur.
Michael kills a nurse one day and his mother, stricken with grief, commits suicide.
Denny was a very active and healthy man who found himself stricken by a heart condition that required a heart transplant.
The story goes that after Castor died, Pollux was so grief stricken that he wished his immortality upon Castor.
Her expression must have looked stricken, because he reached for her.
Bianca gazed at him, pale and stricken.
Dusty's gonna kill me, he whispered, stricken.
Avicenna himself was at this season stricken down by a severe illness.
The head of her elder brother, the boy earl marshal, had been stricken off in the cornfield under the walls of York, but her younger brother's right to his father's dukedom was allowed by parliament in 1425.
In 1089 he was stricken with fever and he died on the 24th of May amidst universal lamentations.
The Central Provinces were stricken by another famine, yet more severe and widespread, caused by the complete failure of the rains in 1899.
For a short time the commercial interests of the stricken city centred at Bellavista, 14 m.
Trajan still thought of returning to Mesopotamia and of avenging his defeat at Hatra, but he was stricken with sickness and compelled to take ship for Italy.
The antiOrange party, remembering the fate of Oldenbarneveldt, were stricken with panic at the imprisonment of their leaders.
During the campaign Crawford was stricken with paralysis, and when the electoral vote was cast Jackson received 99, Adams 84, Crawford 41, and Clay 37.
A year after his marriage he had been stricken down by severe illness, from the effects of which he was never completely to recover; financial cares followed, which were relieved unexpectedly by the generosity of the hereditary prince of Holstein-Augustenburg and his minister, Graf Schimmelmann, who conferred upon him a pension of moo talers a year for three years.
Stricken by illness, Conrad returned to Constantinople at Christmas 1147, but in March 1148 set out to rejoin his troops.
Smallpox, dysentery and fevers, frequently of a bilious character, are endemic and occasionally epidemic. Cholera breaks out from time to time and works great havoc, as was the case in 1903 when one of the raja of Sarawak's punitive expeditions was stricken while ascending the Limbang river by boat, and lost many hundreds of its numbers before the coast could be regained.
In 1751 he accompanied his half-brother Lawrence, who was stricken with consumption, to the West Indies, where he had an attack of small-pox which left him marked for life.
Those of the plains find the temperature chilly, and are stricken down with influenza and pains in the limbs.
Another day he falls in with a decrepit old man, and stricken with dismay at the sight, renews his questions and hears for the first time of death.
Such was the situation when the president, early in July 1850, was stricken by the disease to which he succumbed on the 9th.
But as a childless queen her influence was limited; and when at last her only son, Edward, was born on the 13th of October 1453, her husband was stricken with insanity.
Unhappily, his vigorous frame was already stricken with disease, and, after a lingering illness, he died at Marburg, on the 23rd of November 1875, diligent to the end.
That night he was stricken with an acute attack of angina pectoris, and on the following day he died.