English

Verb

strucken

1. (obsolete) past participle of strike
   • 1884, various, Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, XXII:

     My faither had strucken at it, when the mad animal plunged its horns into the side o' the mare, and he fell to the ground.

   • 1566, William Adlington, The Golden Asse:

     Wherat all the people wondred greatly, and laughed me to scorne: but I beeing strucken in a cold sweat, crept between their legs for shame and escaped away.

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:

     They destitute and bare Of all their virtue: Silent, and in face Confounded, long they sat, as strucken mute: Till Adam, though not less than Eve abashed, At length gave utterance to these words constrained.

   • Shakespeare

     He that is strucken blind cannot forget / The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.

Anagrams

• crunkest