stricken

adjective
🔊/ˈstrɪkən/
🔊/ˈstrɪkən/
(formal)
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  1. seriously affected by an unpleasant feeling or disease or by a difficult situation受煎熬的;患病的;遭受挫折的
    • She raised her stricken face and begged for help.她仰起苦闷的脸,乞求帮助。🔊🔊
    • We went to the aid of the stricken boat.我们前去救助那艘失事的船。🔊🔊
    • stricken with/by something Whole villages were stricken with the disease.整村整村的人染上了这种病。🔊🔊
    • He was stricken by a heart attack on his fiftieth birthday.他在五十岁生日那天心脏病发作。🔊🔊
    Topics Illnessc2
  2. (in compounds构成复合词) seriously affected by the thing mentioned遭受…的;受…之困的
    • poverty-stricken families贫困家庭
    see also conscience-stricken, grief-stricken, horror-stricken, panic-stricken, poverty-stricken, terror-stricken