stricken

动词 v. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. past participle of strike form-of,participle,past
    — 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. Struck by something.
    — The town was stricken by a devastating earthquake that left many buildings in ruins.
  2. Disabled or incapacitated by something.
    — 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.
  3. Disabled or incapacitated by something.; Having its name removed from a country's naval register, e.g. the United States Naval Vessel Register.

词形变化

more stricken comparative most stricken superlative striken alternative,obsolete striken alternative,obsolete

词源

词源 1
From Middle English striken, ystriken, from Old English stricen, ġestricen, from Proto-West Germanic *strikan, 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.
词源 2
From Middle English striken, ystriken, from Old English stricen, ġestricen, from Proto-West Germanic *strikan, 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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