Definition of "heartstricken" []

• Shocked; dismayed (adjective)

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• "When her father learned of it, he wrote a letter to her heartstricken mother: I was sometime expecting it and yet it grieves me more the more I think of it."
• "And he lied again about the reason for attacking Iraq in 1991â€hardly to defend the integrity of Kuwait can one imagine Bush heartstricken over Iraq’s taking of Kuwait?"
• "It was the threat of the convent that finally won the assent of bewildered and heartstricken Pierre Robillard."