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stricken [ˈstrɪkən] ADJ

1. stricken (affected):

stricken

2. stricken (distressed):

poverty stricken
grief stricken
panic stricken
she was stricken with remorse

horror-stricken, horror-struck ADJ

terror-stricken [ˈterəˌstrɪkən, Am -ɚ-], terror-struck [ˈterəstrʌk, Am -ɚ-] ADJ

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

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He is grief stricken when she dies from a snake bite.
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But the determined family refuses to give up and eventually finds its place in the poverty-stricken city.
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Some conscience-stricken consumers called for boycotts.
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She is a poverty-stricken white woman, shunned by society.
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The majority of poverty-stricken children are born to poor parents.
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Later, in the poverty-stricken 50s, she worked in factories; and when the going got really tough - after her first marriage foundered - she gathered garbage at the slums' rubbish dump.
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He said that a thick dark smoke engulfed the scene, thus compounding the already chaotic situation as horror-stricken persons ran in all directions.
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Yan focused on one village, thereby avoiding an indictment of high-up officials, and omitted disturbing scenes of poverty-stricken victims wandering naked with oozing sores.
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The safety car was deployed, as a flatbed truck came to remove the stricken vehicle and blocked the entire track, halting the remaining cars.
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The real truth of the incident only becomes known for certain when the guilt-stricken veteran goes through a cathartic reliving of the battlefield events.
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