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stricken

Main Entry:	strick·en [strik-uhn] /ˈstrɪkən/ Show Spelled
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Main Entry:	stricken
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Main Entry:	stricken
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Example Sentences

One research team looks into what's being stricken from the record.

Stricken state enterprises failed to come right as one futile initiative followed another.

Because of the extreme heat, many poverty stricken people were dying of heat stroke.

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One research team looks into what's being stricken from the record.

Stricken state enterprises failed to come right as one futile initiative followed another.

Because of the extreme heat, many poverty stricken people were dying of heat stroke.

Even more significant is the level of poverty of stricken areas.

The next designer animal could be a cat that does not cause the allergy stricken to wheeze and sneeze.

We agreed that the first person along with the wordiness needed to be stricken.

It buried one of the stricken rail carriages and restored rail services, all before rescue operations had ended.

Families no longer drink microbe soup, so they spend less time sick or caring for loved ones stricken with waterborne diseases.

The other is a genius inventor stricken by some damaging illness.

Western banks had lent recklessly in foreign currency to firms and households stricken by the downturn.

The last sentence has been stricken from the record.

Wild birds have caught the canary pox virus, and penguins have been stricken by avian malaria.

He also said that drowning two of the stricken reactors with salt water to stop a meltdown may have done the trick.

Black band disease has stricken round coral in many reefs throughout the seas.

With early detection, for example, women stricken with breast cancer are often successfully treated and go on to live.

It is rare to hear anything postive about this poverty stricken country aside from famine.

If that stricken cat can sing or play piano, chip injection is doomed.

Because as these banana lands go fallow, you can't grow new bananas in them once they're stricken by disease.

But it was far worse than the outsiders who are trying to help the stricken country feared.

The conflict stricken country has banned photographers from being able to take picture of this gorgeous city.

Americans have become accustomed to stricken airlines and steel companies giving up on their pension plans.

China's government has pledged to divert water to the stricken areas and provide cash for wells.

They need to find a way to move supplies to the stricken towns and villages in the north-east.

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Main Entry:	strike
Part of Speech:

Main Entry:	strike
Part of Speech:

Main Entry:	strike
Part of Speech:

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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