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.