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Stricken vs Strucken - What's the difference?

stricken | strucken |

As verbs the difference between stricken and strucken

is that stricken is past participle of lang=en while strucken is past participle of lang=en.

As an adjective stricken

is struck by something.

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 ----

    strucken

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1884, author=various, title=Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, XXII, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=My faither had strucken at it, when the mad animal plunged its horns into the side o' the mare, and he fell to the ground. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1566, author=William Adlington, title=The Golden Asse, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Wherat all the people wondred greatly, and laughed me to scorne: but I beeing strucken in a cold sweat, crept between their legs for shame and escaped away. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1667, author=John Milton, title=Paradise Lost, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=They destitute and bare Of all their virtue: Silent, and in face Confounded, long they sat, as strucken mute: Till Adam, though not less than Eve abashed, At length gave utterance to these words constrained. }}
  • * Shakespeare
    • He that is strucken blind cannot forget / The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.

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