stricken English

Meaning stricken meaning

What does stricken mean?

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stricken Verb

— A disease can strike a person. That person is stricken with disease. The child was stricken with a serious blood disease.

— When you strike a part from a document, it is stricken from the document. The errors were stricken from the dictionary.

— When bad luck strikes you, you are stricken with bad luck.

stricken

— adjective (= afflicted) grievously affected especially by disease

— adjective (= smitten, struck) (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming conscience-smitten awe-struck

— adjective (= laid low) put out of action (by illness)

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stricken English » English

laid low

affected

struck

smitten

afflicted

uneasy

fraught

wounded

worried

solicitous

sick

shattered

seized

queasy

possessed

pestered

injured

ill

hurt

hot and bothered

hit

heartsick

haunted

harmed

harassed

distressed

desolate

daunted

concerned

brokenhearted

broken

beaten

afraid

Topics stricken topics

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Person Healthy

Sick

• What words refer to being sick with a disease?
  have (a disease) suffer from be sick with infected with stricken with have an attack of

Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Sad

• What words refer to feeling very sad?
  agony anguish desolate despair be in despair disconsolate grief stricken heartbroken inconsolable miserable misery suicidal woe

Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Sorry

• What words refer to feeling sorry?
  feel sorry be sorry regret feel remorse feel convicted conscience stricken feel guilty lament rue rue the day ruefully wish you hadn't done something kick yourself repent be ashamed feel ashamed have a bad conscience have a guilty conscience be on your conscience feel bad about

Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Afraid

• What words refer to feeling very afraid?
  terrified terror panic panic-stricken petrified scared stiff scared out of your wits scared to death