stricken
See also: Stricken
English
Alternative forms
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
Adjective
stricken (comparative more stricken, superlative most stricken)
- Struck by something. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- 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.
- (warships) Having its name removed from a country's naval register, e.g. the United States Naval Vessel Register.
- Template:RQ:Vance Nobody
Derived terms
Translations
Struck by something
Verb
stricken
- 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
Etymology
See the noun Strick (“cord, rope, line”)
Pronunciation
Verb
stricken (weak, third-person singular present strickt, past tense strickte, past participle gestrickt, auxiliary haben)
Conjugation
infinitive | stricken | ||||
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present participle | strickend | ||||
past participle | gestrickt | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich stricke | wir stricken | i | ich stricke | wir stricken |
du strickst | ihr strickt | du strickest | ihr stricket | ||
er strickt | sie stricken | er stricke | sie stricken | ||
preterite | ich strickte | wir strickten | ii | ich strickte1 | wir strickten1 |
du stricktest | ihr stricktet | du stricktest1 | ihr stricktet1 | ||
er strickte | sie strickten | er strickte1 | sie strickten1 | ||
imperative | strick (du) stricke (du) |
strickt (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Related terms
Further reading
- “stricken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “stricken” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “stricken” in Duden online
- stricken on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
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