Terrified vs Stricken - What's the difference?
terrified | stricken |
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 adjectives the difference between terrified and stricken
is that terrified is extremely frightened while stricken is struck by something.As verbs the difference between terrified and stricken
is that terrified is past tense of terrify while stricken is past participle of lang=en.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 ----