strucken
English
Verb
strucken
- (obsolete) past participle of strike
- 1884, various, Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, XXII:
- My faither had strucken at it, when the mad animal plunged its horns into the side o' the mare, and he fell to the ground.
- 1566, William Adlington, The Golden Asse:
- Wherat all the people wondred greatly, and laughed me to scorne: but I beeing strucken in a cold sweat, crept between their legs for shame and escaped away.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
- They destitute and bare Of all their virtue: Silent, and in face Confounded, long they sat, as strucken mute: Till Adam, though not less than Eve abashed, At length gave utterance to these words constrained.
- Shakespeare
- He that is strucken blind cannot forget / The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.
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Anagrams
- crunkest