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suffering severely from the effects of something unpleasant: All the oil from the stricken tanker has now leaked into the sea. My country has been stricken by war for the past five years. He has been stricken with grief since the death of his wife. emergency aid for famine-stricken countries. a poverty-stricken area.
The meaning of STRICKEN is afflicted or overwhelmed by or as if by disease, misfortune, or sorrow. How to use stricken in a sentence.
beset or afflicted, as with disease, trouble, or sorrow: stricken areas; a stricken family. deeply affected, as with grief, fear, or other emotions. characterized by or showing the effects of affliction, trouble, misfortune, a mental blow, etc.: stricken features. stricken. / ˈstrɪkən /.
adjective. /ˈstrɪkən/ (formal) seriously affected by an unpleasant feeling or disease or by a difficult situation. She raised her stricken face and begged for help. We went to the aid of the stricken boat. stricken with/by something Whole villages were stricken with the disease. He was stricken by a heart attack on his fiftieth birthday.
If a person or place is stricken by something such as an unpleasant feeling, an illness, or a natural disaster, they are severely affected by it. ...a family stricken by genetically inherited cancer. [ + by ]
Stricken means "overwhelmed by emotion." When you saw the pretty new girl at school smiling at you, you were so stricken you walked right into a wall.
STRICKEN definition: suffering from the effects of something bad, such as illness, sadness, etc: . Learn more.
