Definition of "terror-stricken" [terror-stricken]

• Stricken with terror; terrified; appalled.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Or, of course, one could take the passive-aggressive route, the one that involves women dying in hospital wards or in some terror-stricken room (ah, the good old days)."
• "The unseen ferry-boat was blowing blast after blast, and the mouth-blown horn was tooting in terror-stricken fashion."
• "Though his teeth each time clipped together perilously close to the man's leg, each time he fell back to earth he had to gather himself together and run at his own top speed in order to overtake the terror-stricken man on the crazy-galloping horse."