stricken
See also: Stricken
English
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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.
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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.
- Template:RQ:Vance Nobody
- 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."
- (warships) Having its name removed from a country's naval register, e.g. the United States Naval Vessel Register.
- (Can we date this quote by unknown and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?), From the trial of Pigasus
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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.
German
Etymology
From Old High German stric, most likely from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“line”).
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Further reading
- “stricken” in Duden online
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