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View definitions for stricken

stricken

adjective as in hurt

Strongest match

Weak matches

adjective as in removed

Strongest match

adjective as in overwhelmed

adjective as in afflicted

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Example Sentences

Then came a call to pick up two stricken American health workers.

But the courage with which he worked in his Ebola-stricken native land is inarguable.

Yama survives with her 15-year-old brother, the only family member not stricken by the virus.

He was helping to evacuate people from the stricken North Tower when the second plane hit.

It turns out poor, devastatingly handsome, AIDS-stricken Ted was Jewish.

Two artillery subalterns who had fought their way through a mob stricken with panic for the moment, soon arrived.

She didn't move for a minute, and the shocked, stricken look in her eyes grew more intense.

He might have been an insufferable young man for a poverty-stricken teacher of French to have as a fellow-lodger; but he was not.

Then, of a sudden, the little colour faded from her cheeks again, and she seemed stricken with a silence.

But not too big for the ragged old arm that felled it down as an axe fells the last rings of a stricken tree.

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On this page you'll find 35 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to stricken, such as: harmed, injured, and wounded.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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