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16 words match “STRICKEN”

STRICKEN p. 3 definitions
Struck; smitten; wounded; as, the stricken deer.
AWE-STRICKEN a.
Awe-struck.
HEARTSTRICKEN a.
Shocked; dismayed.
MOONSTRICKEN a.
See Moonstruck.
PANIC-STRICKEN; PANIC-STRUCK a.
Struck with a panic, or sudden fear. Burke.
PLANET-STRICKEN; PLANET-STRUCK a.
Affected by the influence of planets; blasted. Milton. Like planet-stricken men of yore He trembles, smitten to the core By strong compunction and remorse. Wordsworth.
AWFUL a.
Struck or filled with awe; terror-stricken. [Obs.] A weak and awful reverence for antiquity. I. Watts.
BEGGARLY a.
n the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. "A bankrupt, beggarly fellow." South. "A beggarly fellowship." Swift. "Beggarly elements." Gal. iv. 9.
BLANK a.
acteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.; expressionless; vacant. "Blank and horror-stricken faces." C. Kingsley. The blank . . . glance of a half returned consciousness. G. Eliot.
COMPUNCT a.
Affected with compunction; conscience-stricken. [Obs.]
HEARTSTRUCK a.
Shocked with pain, fear, or remorse; dismayed; heartstricken. Milton.
HORROR-STICKEN a.
Struck with horror; horrified. Blank and horror-stricken faces. C. Kingsley.
HORROR-STRUCK a.
Horror-stricken; horrified. M. Arnold.
STRIKE v.
e; as, the plan proposed strikes me favorably; to strike one dead or blind. How often has stricken you dumb with his irony! Landor.
UPWARD; UPWARDS adv.
gin; -- opposed to downward; as, to tend or roll upward. I. Watts. Looking inward, we are stricken dumb; looking upward, we speak and prevail. Hooker.
WELL adv.
Considerably; not a little; far. Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age. Gen. xviii. 11.