stricken
IPA: strˈɪkʌn
adjective
- Struck by something.
- Disabled or incapacitated by something.
- (military, nautical, of a warship) Having its name removed from a country's naval register, e.g. the United States Naval Vessel Register.
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Examples of "stricken" in Sentences
- Has freedom of speech been stricken from the constitution?
- It's not that the Offertory proper has been stricken from the Mass.
- There is a word I think that has been stricken from the conservative vocabulary.
- Philadelphia, 13 February 1969, where she remained until 1 June 1973 when she was stricken from the Navy list.
- Beer is always an excellent choice at a reasonable cost, although Bud Lite, Coors Lite and Millers Lite must be stricken from the grocery list.
- That answer was stricken from the record by the judge, Gerald I. Fisher, apparently because Arevalos had been in jail and did not have direct knowledge of what happened to the items.
- A moment later they began to play the ethereal string tremolo that introduces "The Blue Danube," and as that first familiar phrase rose on the French horn, people rose to their feet in stricken silence.
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