From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishstrickenstrick‧en /ˈstrɪkən/ adjective formalvery badly affected by trouble, illness, unhappiness etcFire broke out on the stricken ship.stricken by/witha country stricken by severe economic problemsdrought-stricken/cancer-stricken/tragedy-stricken etcdrought-stricken farmers →grief-stricken, panic-stricken, poverty-strickenExamples from the Corpusstricken• At last the pilotmanaged to land his strickenaircraft.• At night, lit from within, she looked like a strickenghost, fleeing the city of glitteringtowers.• I arrived to a house stricken with grief in Plaistow Grove, Bromley, and it wasn't easy.• But then du Pre was stricken with multiplesclerosis and the fairytale quickly unravelled.• Then it bayed and Jim was stricken with terror.stricken by/with• Pablo Fernandez was suddenly stricken by a bout of flu.• I was stricken with a love so vast that I couldn't find the edges.• The formerpresident, now 90 and stricken with Alzheimer's disease, also won't attend the ceremony.• One day the fire remained unlit because every member of the Hauxwell family was stricken with flu and unable to move.• In the period leading up to the actual fight, first-time fighters are suddenly stricken withnervoustension.• In 1934, McDenough was stricken withpneumonia and died.• In 1940, he was stricken withpolio and became disabled.• At sixteen she was stricken withtyphoidfever, which took her a long time to get over.