1 stricken (with/by sth) seriously affected by an unpleasant feeling or disease or by a difficult situation 受煎熬的；患病的；遭受挫折的: She raised her stricken face and begged for help. 她仰起苦闷的脸，乞求帮助。 Whole villages were stricken with the disease. 整村整村的人染上了这种病。 He was stricken by a heart attack on his fiftieth birthday. * 50 岁生日的那一天，他心脏病发作。 We went to the aid of the stricken boat. 我们前去救助那艘失事的船。

2 (in compounds 用于构成复合词) seriously affected by the thing mentioned 遭受…的；受…之困的: grief-stricken relatives 悲痛欲绝的亲戚们 ☞ Look also at panic-stricken and poverty-stricken. 另参看 panic-stricken 及 poverty-stricken。