stricken

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++strick·en /ˈstrɪkən/ adjective formal very badly affected by trouble, illness, unhappiness etc 受灾的；患病的；受困扰的；受苦的 Fire broke out on the stricken ship. 失事船只起火了。stricken by/with a country stricken by severe economic problems 受到严重经济问题困扰的国家drought-stricken/cancer-stricken/tragedy-stricken etc drought-stricken farmers 深受干旱困扰的农场主 → grief-stricken , panic-stricken , poverty-stricken

Examples from the Corpus

stricken• At last the pilot managed to land his stricken aircraft.• He stared with his stupendously stoned eyes at the assembled and stricken family.• At night, lit from within, she looked like a stricken ghost, fleeing the city of glittering towers.• I arrived to a house stricken with grief in Plaistow Grove, Bromley, and it wasn't easy.• But then du Pre was stricken with multiple sclerosis and the fairytale quickly unravelled.• Then it bayed and Jim was stricken with terror.stricken by/with• Pablo Fernandez was suddenly stricken by a bout of flu.• I was stricken with a love so vast that I couldn't find the edges.• The former president, now 90 and stricken with Alzheimer's disease, also won't attend the ceremony.• One day the fire remained unlit because every member of the Hauxwell family was stricken with flu and unable to move.• In the period leading up to the actual fight, first-time fighters are suddenly stricken with nervous tension.• In 1934, McDenough was stricken with pneumonia and died.• In 1940, he was stricken with polio and became disabled.• At sixteen she was stricken with typhoid fever, which took her a long time to get over.

strick·en adjectiveChineseSyllable

illness, trouble, Corpus badly very by unhappiness etc affected

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stricken
strick‧en /ˈstrɪkən/