stricken

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English

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Etymology

From Middle English striken, ystriken, from Old English stricen, ġestricen, from Proto-West Germanic *strikan, from Proto-Germanic *strikanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *strīkaną (to strike).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian strieken, Dutch gestreken, German Low German streken, German gestrichen.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstɹɪkən/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪkən

Adjective

stricken (comparative more stricken, superlative most stricken)

  1. Struck by something. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  2. Disabled or incapacitated by something.
    • Template:RQ:Vance Nobody
      Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
    1. (warships) Having its name removed from a country's naval register, e.g. the United States Naval Vessel Register.

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Verb

stricken

  1. past participle of strike
    • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
      Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins like a veteran army that had marched down to drink, only to be stricken motionless at the water’s edge.

Usage notes

See strike for use of this form (as opposed to struck).

Anagrams


German

Stricken

Etymology

See the noun Strick (cord, rope, line)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʃtʁɪkŋ̩/, /ˈʃtʁɪkən/
  • Audio:(file)
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  • Audio (Austria):(file)

Verb

stricken (weak, third-person singular present strickt, past tense strickte, past participle gestrickt, auxiliary haben)

  1. to knit
    Synonym: (Switzerland) lismen
  2. (now rare or figurative) to tie, to knot

Conjugation

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