Definition of stricken 1a : afflicted or overwhelmed by or as if by disease, misfortune, or sorrow. b : made incapable or unfit rescuers were sent to the stricken ship. 2 : hit or wounded by or as if by a missile the deer had been stricken by an arrow.
(plerdn) or plague-stricken. adjective. afflicted by the plague or a plague. crowded, plague-ridden prisons. She went among her plague-stricken people to pray God to end the pestilence.
Most of the time the past participle of strike is struck. The exceptions are that you can be stricken with guilt, a misfortune, a wound or a disease; and a passage in a document can be stricken out. The rest of the time, stick with struck.
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- 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.
1 : to surround with armed forces for the purpose of capturing The army besieged the castle. 2 : to crowd around The movie star was besieged by photographers. 3 : to overwhelm with questions or requests the monks around me besieged me with eager questions
A stricken proceeding is one removed from the court calendar by a judicial officer and is not recorded on a calendar to take place at another date. … A stricken or canceled proceeding is only an instance where a proceeding has been set for a specific date and is stricken or canceled before that hearing commences.
Full Definition of plague (Entry 1 of 2) 1a : a disastrous evil or affliction : calamity. b : a destructively numerous influx or multiplication of a noxious animal : infestation a plague of locusts. 2a : an epidemic disease causing a high rate of mortality : pestilence.
Obsolete spelling of stricken; past participle of strike.
adjective. DEFINITIONS1. feeling extremely guilty for a long time. Synonyms and related words. Feeling ashamed or embarrassed.
struck out; struck out also stricken out; striking out; strikes out. Definition of strike out (Entry 2 of 2) intransitive verb. 1 : to enter upon a course of action. 2 : to set out vigorously.
Stricken Sentence Examples Stricken, she wrapped her arms around her knees and began to cry.Herod was stricken with an incurable disease. Henry, stricken with sore disease, was unable to reap the advantage. With the exceptions of 1891 and 1894, every year in the period 1891-1900 was stricken by drought.
beset or afflicted, as with disease, trouble, or sorrow: stricken areas; a stricken family. deeply affected, as with grief, fear, or other emotions.
troubled, affected, deeply affected, afflicted, struck, hit, injured, wounded. unaffected.
If you are besieged by people, many people want something from you and continually bother you. If soldiers besiege a place, they surround it and wait for the people in it to stop fighting or resisting. … The main part of the army moved to Sevastopol to besiege the town.
The answer ‘encircled’ means to surround. More synonyms of the word ‘besieged’ are a trap, beset, blockade whereas some antonyms of the same word are let go, leave alone.
In this page you can discover 50 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for besiege, like: belay, close-in-on, attack, assault, blockade, girt, slay, annoy, pester, press and confine.
Stricken means dismissed or removed from the call.
So Stricken from the record , means to remove a comment, statement or question, from the recorded log. Strike from the record, is a phrase you’ll hear often in court room dramas.
Stricken off Leave refers to an outcome of a legal case and is sometimes also called stricken off with leave to reinstate. This does not mean that the defendant has been either convicted or acquitted of a charge.
Carried by the fleas on rats, the plague initially spread to humans near the Black Sea and then outwards to the rest of Europe as a result of people fleeing from one area to another.
A widespread affliction, calamity or destructive influx, especially when seen as divine retribution. Ten Biblical plagues over Egypt, ranging from locusts to the death of the crown prince, finally forced Pharaoh to let Moses’s people go. noun.
The first two major plague pandemics began with the Plague of Justinian and the Black Death. The most recent, the so-called Third Pandemic, erupted in 1855 in the Chinese province of Yunnan.
Striking Committee means Council meeting as a whole to appoint Chairs and Vice- Chairs to Committee of the Whole and making Councillor and public appointments to Agencies, Boards, Committees and Commissions. Sample 1. Save. Copy.
adjective stricken
| part of speech: | verb |
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| definition: | a past participle of strike. |
| part of speech: | adjective |
| definition 1: | injured, afflicted, or overwhelmed, as by wounds, illness, grief, or disaster (often used in combination). those stricken by the plaguethe flood-stricken city |
[South Africa, Labour Relations Act, 1995 (amended by the Labour Relations Amendment Act, 2002)] Sect. L620. 1. A strike is a concerted labour stoppage decided upon by employees to pursue occupational claims and in defence of their material or moral interests.
: feeling very bad or guilty because of something one has done the story of a conscience-stricken thief who repays all she’s stolen.
Definition of shamefaced 1 : showing modesty : bashful. 2 : showing shame : ashamed.
If a person is guilt-ridden, they feel very guilty about something.
