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stricken fear

stricken fear is the past participle of strike fear.

Meaning of strike fear

Verb

strike fear (third-person singular simple present strikes fear, present participle striking fear, simple past struck fear, past participle struck fear or (rare or archaic) stricken fear)

  1. To terrify; to petrify [with into ‘someone’].

Questions about stricken fear

What is stricken fear the past participle of?
Stricken fear is the past participle of strike fear.

Words near stricken fear in the dictionary

  1. stricken a stroke
  2. stricken back
  3. stricken camp
  4. stricken down
  5. stricken dumb
  6. stricken fear
  7. stricken in
  8. stricken off
  9. stricken off strength
  10. stricken one's colors
  11. stricken one's flag

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Adapted from Wiktionary: stricken fear (page history and authors); strike fear (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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