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Stuck vs Stricken - What's the difference?

stuck | stricken |

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

  • (stick) (which in the past was sticked )
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Trapped and unable to move.
  • Sue tried to squeeze through the window, but got stuck .
    Can you shift this gate? I think it's stuck .
  • Unable to progress.
  • ''I'm stuck on this question in the test.
    Derived terms
    * stuck on

    Etymology 2

    Compare stoccado.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A thrust.
  • * 1599 , , IV. vii. 160:
  • If he by chance escape your venomed stuck, / Our purpose may hold there.
    (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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    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 ----