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stricken

/strik-uhn/US // ˈstrɪk ən //UK // (ˈstrɪkən) //

被击倒,被击倒的,被害,被击垮

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Definitions

v.动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : a past participle of strike.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : hit or wounded by a weapon, missile, or the like.
    • : beset or afflicted, as with disease, trouble, or sorrow: stricken areas; a stricken family.
    • : deeply affected, as with grief, fear, or other emotions.
    • : characterized by or showing the effects of affliction, trouble, misfortune, a mental blow, etc.: stricken features.

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Examples

  • In order to recover locked-up data, ransomware-stricken firms often have few options but to meet hackers’ extortion demands—even though doing so by no means guarantees data recovery.

  • The broadband service has helped both emergency responders and families in wildfire-stricken areas.

  • Two weeks later, when a second pair of Covid-stricken brothers, both in their 20s, also appeared in the Netherlands, geneticists were called in to investigate.

  • Boeing is preparing to offer buyouts to employees for a second time this year as the virus-stricken planemaker extends its workforce cuts beyond the original 10% target unveiled in April.

  • There are also potentially toxic pesticides and pollutants spewed by the burning of everything from fossil fuels to drought-stricken forests.

  • Then came a call to pick up two stricken American health workers.

  • But the courage with which he worked in his Ebola-stricken native land is inarguable.

  • Yama survives with her 15-year-old brother, the only family member not stricken by the virus.

  • He was helping to evacuate people from the stricken North Tower when the second plane hit.

  • It turns out poor, devastatingly handsome, AIDS-stricken Ted was Jewish.

  • Two artillery subalterns who had fought their way through a mob stricken with panic for the moment, soon arrived.

  • She didn't move for a minute, and the shocked, stricken look in her eyes grew more intense.

  • He might have been an insufferable young man for a poverty-stricken teacher of French to have as a fellow-lodger; but he was not.

  • Then, of a sudden, the little colour faded from her cheeks again, and she seemed stricken with a silence.

  • But not too big for the ragged old arm that felled it down as an axe fells the last rings of a stricken tree.