stricken

See also: Stricken

English

Alternative forms

• striken (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English striken, ystriken, from Old English stricen, ġestricen, 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/

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• 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.

3. Removed or rubbed out.
   • (Can we date this quote by unknown and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?), From the trial of Pigasus

     "MR. KUNSTLER: Were you informed by an officer that the pig had squealed on you? MR. FORAN: Objection. I ask it be stricken."

   1. (warships) Having its name removed from a country's naval register, e.g. the United States Naval Vessel Register.

Derived terms

• poverty-stricken
• terror-stricken, terrorstricken

Translations

Struck by something

• German: ergriffen (de), heimgesucht (de), betroffen (de), verwundet (de), gedrückt (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

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.

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German

Stricken

Etymology

From Old High German stric, most likely from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“line”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃtʀɪkŋ̩/, /ˈʃtʀɪkən/

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Verb

1. to knit

   Synonym: (Switzerland) lismen

2. (now rare or figurative) to tie, to knot

Related terms

• Strick
• verstricken
• bestricken
• umstricken

Further reading

• “stricken” in Duden online