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struck

[ struhk ]

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verb

(of a factory, industry, etc.) closed or otherwise affected by a strike of workers.
overcome, obsessed, or deeply affected by a specified person, feeling, or thing (used in combination):
Ichabod was horror-struck on perceiving that the rider was headless.
If you know any stagestruck youngsters begging for ballet lessons, these new dance books will get them off on the right foot.

struck

/ strʌk /

(of an industry, factory, etc) shut down or otherwise affected by a labour strike

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Origin of struck¹

First recorded in 1890–95 struck fordef 2

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It was seen by a small delegation of star-struck prelates and dignitaries who later described the film as “moving.”

He spoke of the present-day tragedies and turmoil that struck the city while he and his classmates were in the academy.

The NYPD Emerald Society pipes and drums struck up a slow march and the procession began the journey to the cemetery.

He has struck a promising tone these last few days with his rhetoric about trying to “see each other.”

Like that tourist handing out cigars, I, too, had a family member in one of the towers that had been struck by a plane.

The clock struck ten, and clerks poured in faster than ever, each one in a greater perspiration than his predecessor.

The king was struck with horror at the description I had given him of those terrible engines, and the proposal I had made.

It was all breeze and freshness, and the sunlight struck picturesquely aslant the hill-sides.

Then he clapped his fiddle under his chin and without more ado struck up "Bobbing Joan."

The very first chords which Mademoiselle Reisz struck upon the piano sent a keen tremor down Mrs. Pontellier's spinal column.

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