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What is the difference between struck and stricken?

struck | stricken |

As verbs the difference between struck and stricken

is that struck is past tense of strike (delete while stricken is past participle of lang=en.

As an adjective stricken is

struck by something.

struck

English

Verb

(head)
  • (strike) (delete)
  • (strike) (hit)

    • Derived terms

    * awe-struck * horror-struck * love-struck * star-struck English irregular simple past forms English irregular past participles

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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 ----