stricken
adjective/ˈstrɪkən/
/ˈstrɪkən/
(formal)- seriously affected by an unpleasant feeling or disease or by a difficult situation
- She raised her stricken face and begged for help.
- We went to the aid of the stricken boat.
- stricken with/by something Whole villages were stricken with the disease.
- He was stricken by a heart attack on his fiftieth birthday.
- (in compounds) seriously affected by the thing mentioned
- poverty-stricken families
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