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Striking vs Stricken - What's the difference?

striking | stricken |

As nouns the difference between striking and stricken

is that striking is the act by which something strikes or is struck while stricken is knitting or stricken can be (de-form-noun).

As an adjective striking

is making a strong impression.

As a verb striking

is .

striking

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Making a strong impression.
  • :
  • *
  • *:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking . In complexion fair, and with blue or gray eyes, he was tall as any Viking, as broad in the shoulder.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something strikes or is struck.
  • * 2012 , Andrew Pessin, Uncommon Sense (page 142)
    • We've observed plenty of strikings followed by lightings, so even if we should not say that the strikings cause the lightings, isn't it at least reasonable to predict, and to believe, that the next time we strike a match in similar conditions, it will be followed by a lighting?

    Anagrams

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    stricken

    English

    (wikipedia stricken)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Struck by something.
  • Disabled or incapacitated by something.
  • *
  • *: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).

    • Verb

    (head)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1913, author=
    • , chapter=4, title= 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 ----