stricken

Adjective

stricken (comparative more stricken, superlative most stricken)

1. Struck by something.
   • The town was stricken by a devastating earthquake that left many buildings in ruins.
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...1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter III...
   • Services had to be diverted, damaged lines restored, and materials for coastal defence and relief supplies conveyed to the stricken areas with all possible speed.1953 April, “Flood Damage on British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 217
   1. Having its name removed from a country's naval register, e.g. the United States Naval Vessel Register.