struck

American  

[struhk] / strʌk /

verb

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

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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 British  

/ strʌk /

verb

1. the past tense and past participle of strike

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adjective

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

Etymology

Origin of struck

First recorded in 1890–95 struck for def. 2

Example Sentences

TikTok then struck a deal to create a new U.S. entity to avoid a ban.

From Los Angeles Times

A UK-EU summit is expected this summer, after the two sides struck a deal last May on areas including fishing rights, trade, defence and energy.

From BBC

Harvard-Westlake 8, Loyola 0: Junior Justin Kirchner, a Yale commit, struck out 13 and threw a no-hitter in the Mission League win.

From Los Angeles Times

GM’s supplier contracts were struck with the expectation that GM would be building one million EVs a year.

From The Wall Street Journal

Satellite imagery of Prince Sultan throughout March shows an E-3 parked in the same location of the one struck by Iran last week on at least several days that month.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

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