1.1(of a person's face or appearance) showing great distress.
‘she looked at Anne's stricken face, contorted with worry’
‘The stricken look on his face tells us that the narcissist has no answer and never will.’
‘Instead, I took one look at your stricken face and ran all the way to Piccadilly Circus.’
‘Less than a full hour into my set, the club owner burst into the DJ booth, a stricken look on his face.’
‘Seth caught a brief glimpse of her tear stricken face before she ran past him.’
‘A stricken look crossed her face, and the danger to her and Bella really struck home.’
‘He had a pale, stricken look on his face by the time we reached the school's spacious hall.’
‘One of the most arresting images in this exhibition is the stricken face of a young woman.’
‘With a final stricken look at his uncomprehending face, Olivia steps out into the rain.’
‘Still she saw the stricken look on Ali's face and tears came to her eyes.’
‘When she opened her dark eyes they glistened with unshed tears, round in her pale and stricken face.’
‘He collapsed onto another chair and covered his tear stricken face with his hands.’
‘Casting one last stricken look at her, he ducked his head and ran towards the door.’
‘Christy looked up at him and gave him such a fear stricken look that he felt powerful.’
‘His face was stricken with age, profound ringlets encircling his deep golden eyes.’
‘Her face was stricken with fear until she calmed down and saw that we were on her side.’
‘He looked as stricken as I felt, remorse and guilt printed subtly on his patrician face.’
‘Brian's face took on a stricken appearance, but he turned and walked off without a sound.’
‘The young man looked stricken and alarmed, jumping up quickly to hold out a hand.’
‘The young woman paled, her expression stricken as she looked down at his daughter.’
‘Her voice was stricken with sadness, but I could also sense that she was worried.’
Phrases
stricken in years archaic
Old and feeble.
‘As for these men who are stricken in years, their loins are as tender as those of a young animal that cannot walk.’
‘Now King David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he could get no heat.’
‘He was well stricken in years, and his days were numbered, and the mind was now engaged in following the backward tract of an eventful life, and apparently oblivious of the present sad surroundings.’
‘When they were stricken in years, betwixt 70 and 80, there was a great election betwixt Hungerford and Putchin for the County of Leicester, such a one as never was before nor never since.’
‘Elizabeth was barren, and they were both well stricken in years.’
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