Stricken vs Sudden - What's the difference?
stricken | sudden |
Struck by something.
Disabled or incapacitated by something.
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*:Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
Removed or rubbed out.
#(lb) Having its name removed from a country's naval register, e.g. the United States (Naval Vessel Register).
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, chapter=4, title= Happening quickly and with little or no warning.
*, chapter=1
, title= (obsolete) Hastily prepared or employed; quick; rapid.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
(obsolete) Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between stricken and sudden
is that stricken is knitting or stricken can be (de-form-noun) while sudden is (obsolete) an unexpected occurrence; a surprise.As an adjective sudden is
happening quickly and with little or no warning.As an adverb sudden is
(poetic) suddenly.stricken
English
(wikipedia stricken)Adjective
(en adjective)Verb
(head)Lord Stranleigh Abroad, passage=Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins like a veteran army that had marched down to drink, only to be stricken motionless at the water’s edge.}} English adjectives ending in -en ----
sudden
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
- Never was such a sudden scholar made.
- the apples of Asphaltis, appearing goodly to the sudden eye
- I have no joy of this contract to-night: It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden