struck

[ struhk ]

verb

1. the simple past tense and a past participle of strike.

adjective

1. (of a factory, industry, etc.) closed or otherwise affected by a strike of workers.
2. 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 /

verb

1. the past tense and past participle of strike

adjective

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of struck¹

First recorded in 1890–95 struck fordef 2

Example Sentences

Trump pulled out of a nuclear deal with Iran that was struck by the Obama administration in 2015.

From Salon

Authorities say the two were struck on their way to dinner around 9:50 p.m. by a Mercedes-Benz GT63 that had been speeding west on Sherman Way alongside a Rolls-Royce Cullinan.

From Los Angeles Times

Vega was turning left into a parking lot at Sherman Circle when the driver of the Mercedes-Benz struck the right side of his vehicle, the Los Angeles Police Department said.

From Los Angeles Times

A driver struck a horse early Sunday on the 15 Freeway in Norco, according to a Riverside County fire official.

From Los Angeles Times

The nation’s most painful sacrifices were absorbed by his Democratic predecessors—in Obama’s case, that was the agonizingly slow recovery from the Great Recession that began under George W. Bush, and in Biden’s it was the pandemic-era round of inflation that struck every single country on the planet.

From Slate

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