Stuck vs Stricken - What's the difference?
stuck | stricken |
(stick) (which in the past was sticked )
Trapped and unable to move.
Unable to progress.
(obsolete) A thrust.
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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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As verbs the difference between stuck and stricken
is that stuck is past tense of stick (which in the past was sticked while stricken is past participle of lang=en.As adjectives the difference between stuck and stricken
is that stuck is trapped and unable to move while stricken is struck by something.As a noun stuck
is a thrust.stuck
English
Etymology 1
Verb
Adjective
(en adjective)- Sue tried to squeeze through the window, but got stuck .
- Can you shift this gate? I think it's stuck .
- ''I'm stuck on this question in the test.
Derived terms
* stuck onEtymology 2
Compare stoccado.Noun
(en noun)- If he by chance escape your venomed stuck, / Our purpose may hold there.
Anagrams
*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 ----