Vocabulary
Stricken
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
seriously affected by an undesirable condition or unpleasant feeling.
Urdu meaning
تباہ حال، مارنا، پیٹنا
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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As Europeans arrived in droves stricken by the vagaries of war, others, for example, including Indians, arrived in Australia for jobs.
Dawn Editorials —
Mutating cancer cells of hatred
— 2025-12-23
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BEIRUT: Terror-stricken Beirutis, warned by the State Radio that most streets in their city were unsafe, huddled indoors today [Dec 7] after a day of violence that left 80 dead.
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Fifty years ago 80 dead in Beirut
— 2025-12-08
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The Provincial Government, he said, were helping the flood-stricken people by giving them seeds, bullocks, raccavi loans and other relief.The Centre too, he said, was doing all that was possible.
Dawn Editorials —
Seventy-five years ago Food situation
— 2025-11-03
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CROSS Pakistan from the floodplains of Punjab to the heat-stricken cities of Sindh the climate crisis is taking a quiet, deadly toll.
Dawn Editorials —
Climate casualties
— 2025-05-09
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Not undertaking these reforms is akin to opting for a miserable, chaotic, poverty-stricken, and insecure future.
Dawn Editorials —
Ignored challenge
— 2025-03-04
Synonyms
troubled, deeply affected, affected, struck, afflicted, hit, wounded, injured,
Curator example
“the pilot landed the stricken aircraft”
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Urdu equivalents where we have them, word relations, and—when generated—real lines from the editorial archive
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