/ ˈstrɪkən; NAmE / adjective ( formal )
1.
stricken (with / by sth) seriously affected by an unpleasant feeling or disease or by a difficult situation :
She raised her stricken face and begged for help.
Whole villages were stricken with the disease.
He was stricken by a heart attack on his fiftieth birthday.
We went to the aid of the stricken boat.
2.
(in compounds) seriously affected by the thing mentioned :
poverty-stricken families
—see also grief-stricken , horror-stricken , panic-stricken