stricken
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Britannica Dictionary definition of STRICKEN
:
powerfully affected by disease, trouble, sorrow, etc.
— often + by or with
— often used in combination
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see also grief-stricken, panic-stricken, poverty-stricken, 1strike
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I saw her stricken face looking up at us.
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He was too stricken by embarrassment to speak.
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a nation stricken with grief
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She had been stricken with polio as a child.
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disease-stricken villages
