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Verb
strucken
- (obsolete) past participle of strike
1566, William Adlington, The Golden Asse:Wherat all the people wondred greatly, and laughed me to scorne: but I beeing strucken in a cold sweat, crept between their legs for shame and escaped away.
c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :He that is strooken blind cannot forget / The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.
1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:They destitute and bare Of all their virtue: Silent, and in face Confounded, long they sat, as strucken mute: Till Adam, though not less than Eve abashed, At length gave utterance to these words constrained.
1884, various, Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, XXII:My faither had strucken at it, when the mad animal plunged its horns into the side o' the mare, and he fell to the ground.
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