| Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993. |
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| strike (v.) |
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| Struck is both past tense and one of two Standard past participle forms; stricken is the other past participle, much used as a participial adjective: panic-stricken. There is a semantic distinction between the two participles: in transitive use only struck is literally “hit” (She had struck him on the cheek); stricken is mostly figurative, sometimes meaning “infected, afflicted” (Typhoid had stricken [struck] the entire village), sometimes “crossed out, deleted” (The agent had stricken her name from the passenger list). The participial adjective is also much used to mean “wounded” or “hurt,” as in Her stricken look spoke volumes. | 1 |
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| | | The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. Copyright © 1993 Columbia University Press. |
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