different between stricken vs livered

English

Alternative forms

• striken (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English striken, ystriken, from Old English stricen, ?estricen, from Proto-Germanic *strikanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *str?kan? (“to strike”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian strieken, Dutch gestreken, German Low German streken, German gestrichen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st??k?n/
• Rhymes: -?k?n

Adjective

stricken (comparative more stricken, superlative most stricken)

1. Struck by something. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. Disabled or incapacitated by something.

   • Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.

   1. (warships) Having its name removed from a country's naval register, e.g. the United States Naval Vessel Register.

Derived terms

• poverty-stricken
• terror-stricken, terrorstricken

Translations

Verb

stricken

1. past participle of strike

Usage notes

See strike for use of this form (as opposed to struck).

German

Etymology

From Old High German stric, most likely from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“line”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t??k??/, /??t??k?n/

Verb

stricken (weak, third-person singular present strickt, past tense strickte, past participle gestrickt, auxiliary haben)

1. to knit

   Synonym: (Switzerland) lismen

2. (now rare or figuratively) to tie, to knot

Conjugation

Related terms

• Strick
• verstricken
• bestricken
• umstricken

Further reading

• “stricken” in Duden online

English

Etymology

liver +? -ed

Adjective

livered (not comparable)

1. (in combination) Having (or having the characteristics associated with) a specified form of liver

Anagrams

• deliver, delivre, relived, reviled