STRICKEN

[adjective]Someone or something that is stricken is suffering severely from the effects of something unpleasant.All the oil from the stricken tanker has now leaked into the sea.My country has been stricken by war for the past five years.At the age of seven, he was stricken with polio and paralysed in his right leg.He has been stricken with grief since the death of his wife.The civil war has prevented humanitarian aid reaching the millions of people in the drought-stricken north of the country.We ought to be increasing emergency aid for famine-stricken countries, not reducing it.Five people were trampled to death as the panic-stricken crowd tried to escape the flames.He lives in one of the most poverty-stricken areas of the country.