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STRUCK
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(used in combination) affected by something overwhelming
Example:
awe-struck
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
affected (acted upon; influenced)
Domain usage:
combining form (a bound form used only in compounds)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb strike
Context examples:
Her tone expressed her entire indifference; she addressed me in English, and the voice struck me as one that I had heard during my sufferings.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
He sprang to his feet with a whine, and then, struck by a new idea, turned his attention to Madge.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
When Jo came home that spring, she had been struck with the change in Beth.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply from within.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Then he struck his leg with his great sunburned hand.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Of course that was why he needed the candle, and struck the match.”
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The clock, far down in the hall, struck two.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
"It struck me that the man was small," said I.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We struck our bargain on the spot.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I am sure you must have been struck by his awkward look and abrupt manner, and the uncouthness of a voice which I heard to be wholly unmodulated as I stood here.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
