stricken
Overcome by hardship
Stricken describes someone or something severely affected by trouble, illness, or misfortune: a grief-stricken widow, poverty-stricken communities, stricken with cancer.
The word carries weight—it suggests being struck down, overwhelmed.
As the past participle of strike, stricken appears in legal contexts: stricken from the record.
In everyday speech, struck has largely replaced it except in these affliction-related uses.
In poor health
- ailingIn poor health
- diseasedAffected by illness
- sicklyProne to poor health
- debilitatedMade weak or infirm
weakened · infirm · feeble · bedridden · convalescent · terminal · suffering · incapacitated
Period following loss
- bereavedDeprived by death
- heartbrokenOverwhelmed with grief
- anguishedSeverely emotionally distressed
- desolateBleak and abandoned
bereft · sorrowful · devastated · inconsolable · lamenting · despairing · brokenhearted · wretched
Prevail against difficulty
- overpoweredExcessively dominant or conquered
- engulfedCompletely swallowed up
- seizedTook suddenly, forcefully
- grippedHeld with pressure
consumed · paralyzed · helpless · besieged · beset · burdened · inundated · flooded
Shocked into speechlessness
- dumbfoundedRendered speechless by surprise
- aghastStruck with horror
- horrifiedIntensely shocked, disgusted
- thunderstruckExtremely shocked or amazed
stupefied · dazed · shaken · alarmed · jolted · reeling · paralyzed · frozen
Uncooked cake mixture
count · umpire · looking · swinging · whiff · at-bat · plate · punch out
Taken from position
- expungedOfficially removed completely
- deletedPermanently removed
- excisedCut away surgically
- erasedRemoved by rubbing
crossed out · redacted · omitted · eliminated · voided · annulled · invalidated · retracted
ill
In poor health
debilitated · weakened · infirm · feeble · bedridden · convalescent · terminal · suffering · incapacitated · impaired
mourning
Period following loss
- bereavedDeprived by death
- heartbrokenOverwhelmed with grief
- anguishedSeverely emotionally distressed
desolate · bereft · sorrowful · devastated · inconsolable · lamenting · despairing · brokenhearted · wretched · forlorn
overcome
Prevail against difficulty
- overpoweredExcessively dominant or conquered
- engulfedCompletely swallowed up
- seizedTook suddenly, forcefully
gripped · consumed · paralyzed · helpless · besieged · beset · burdened · inundated · flooded · swamped
stunned
Shocked into speechlessness
- dumbfoundedRendered speechless by surprise
- aghastStruck with horror
- horrifiedIntensely shocked, disgusted
thunderstruck · stupefied · dazed · shaken · alarmed · jolted · reeling · paralyzed · frozen · speechless
batter
Uncooked cake mixture
out · count · umpire · looking · swinging · whiff · at-bat · plate · punch out · K
removed
Taken from position
erased · crossed out · redacted · omitted · eliminated · voided · annulled · invalidated · retracted · withdrawn
- invalidsinvalid, invalids, infirm, bedridden, incapacitated
- nautical termsahoy, afloat, aye aye, aye-aye, becalmed
- fortunelucky, luck, fortune, fate, destiny
- sadnesssad, unhappy, grief, sorrowful, heartbroken
- incapacitatedunconscious, knocked out, out cold, passed out, comatose
- struck thingspunched, slapped, kicked, hammered, clubbed
- stricken dumbMade voiceless by shock
strike, striking, backing, coloring, backed, struck, backer, striker, strikes