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struck
[ struhk ]
adjective
- (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
/ ٰʌ /
verb
- the past tense and past participle of strike
adjective
- (of an industry, factory, etc) shut down or otherwise affected by a labour strike
Word History and Origins
Origin of struck1
Example Sentences
The duo struck up a relationship and the rest, as they say, is history.
At least two people have been struck by trains near the falls since 2012.
Yamamoto still struck out five and kept the Dodgers in the contest despite being below his best.
Under the terms of the original £548m deal, struck under pressure from the then-Labour government, the Post Office did not own the computer code for the core part of the Horizon system.
It said in a statement: "The building was struck due to assessed enemy presence and was not identified by the forces as a UN facility."
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