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







