# stricken
## English
### Alternative forms

* striken (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Middle English striken, ystriken, from Old English stricen, ġestricen, from Proto-West Germanic *strikan, from Proto-Germanic *strikanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *strīkaną (“to strike”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian strieken, Dutch gestreken, German Low German streken, German gestrichen.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈstɹɪkən/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪkən

### Adjective

stricken (comparative more stricken, superlative most stricken)
* Struck by something.
    The town was stricken by a devastating earthquake that left many buildings in ruins.
* Disabled or incapacitated by something.
** 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter III (Accessory After the Fact), page 382, column 1: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.
** 1953 April, “Flood Damage on British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 217:Services had to be diverted, damaged lines restored, and materials for coastal defence and relief supplies conveyed to the stricken areas with all possible speed.
** 2021 February 3, Drachinifel, 20:43 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - Santa Cruz (IJN 2 : 2 USN)‎, archived from the original on 4 December 2022:At about twenty past three in the afternoon, these aircraft duly began to arrive. The cruiser Northampton was towing Hornet at a stately five knots when, out of the sky, came seven torpedo-armed aircraft. They managed to miss the barely-moving Hornet with all but one drop... but one hit was really all that it took, the location causing additional damage to the stricken carrier and demolishing most of the repairs that had been made to the earlier damage.
** (military, nautical, of a warship) Having its name removed from a country's naval register, e.g. the United States Naval Vessel Register.

#### Derived terms

* awe-stricken
* grief-stricken
* horror-stricken
* panic-stricken
* planet-stricken
* poverty-stricken
* stage-stricken
* terror-stricken
* terrorstricken

#### Translations
### Verb

stricken
* past participle of strike
** 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad: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.

#### Usage notes

See strike for use of this form (as opposed to struck).

### Anagrams

* Tickners

## German
### Etymology

From Middle High German stricken (“to tie, to knit”), from Old High German stricken (“to tie”), derived from the noun stric, whence modern Strick (“short rope for binding”). Compare Dutch strikken. Displaced Middle High German bretten (“to knit”). The obsolete sense “to tie” still underlies in compounds (see below).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʃtrɪkən/, [ˈʃtʁɪ.kŋ̍], [ˈʃtʁɪ.kən]
* Audio:(file)
* Audio:(file)
* Audio (Austria):(file)

### Verb

stricken (weak, third-person singular present strickt, past tense strickte, past participle gestrickt, auxiliary haben)
* to knit
    Synonym: (Switzerland) lismen
* (figurative) to make, devise, concoct (e.g. a story, a ruse)
* (archaic to obsolete) to tie, knot

#### Conjugation

$^1$Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.

#### Derived terms

* verstricken
* bestricken
* umstricken

#### Related terms

* Strickgarn, Strickjacke, Strickmuster, Strickmütze, Stricknadel, Strickwaren
* Strick

### Further reading

* “stricken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
* “stricken” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
* “stricken” in Duden online
* stricken on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia $^{de}$