stricken

== English == === Alternative forms === striken (obsolete) === Etymology === From Middle English striken, ystriken, from Old English stricen, ġestricen, from Proto-West Germanic *strikan, from Proto-Germanic *strikanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *strīkaną (“to strike”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian strieken, Dutch gestreken, German Low German streken, German gestrichen. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈstɹɪkən/ Rhymes: -ɪkən === Adjective === stricken (comparative more stricken, superlative most stricken) Struck by something. Disabled or incapacitated by something. (military, nautical, of a warship) Having its name removed from a country's naval register, e.g. the United States Naval Vessel Register. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === stricken past participle of strike ==== Usage notes ==== See strike for use of this form (as opposed to struck). === Anagrams === Tickners == German == === Etymology === From Middle High German stricken (“to tie, to knit”), from Old High German stricken (“to tie”), derived from the noun stric, whence modern Strick (“short rope for binding”). Compare Dutch strikken. Displaced Middle High German bretten (“to knit”). The obsolete sense “to tie” still underlies in compounds (see below). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈʃtrɪkən/, [ˈʃtʁɪ.kŋ̍], [ˈʃtʁɪ.kən] === Verb === stricken (weak, third-person singular present strickt, past tense strickte, past participle gestrickt, auxiliary haben) to knit Synonym: (Switzerland) lismen (figurative) to make, devise, concoct (e.g. a story, a ruse) (archaic to obsolete) to tie, knot ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== aufstricken bestricken verstricken umstricken ==== Related terms ==== Strickgarn, Strickjacke, Strickmuster, Strickmütze, Stricknadel, Strickwaren Strick === Further reading === “stricken”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[4] (in German) “stricken” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “stricken” in Duden online stricken on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de