Difference between Smitten and Stricken

Smitten

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Made irrationally enthusiastic. In love.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To hit, to strike.

Example sentence: In the 1880s, a weedy Easterner named Owen Wister had something like a nervous breakdown. Wyoming, with its wide-open spaces and healthy pursuits, was prescribed as a cure. Wister was immediately smitten by the taciturn cowboys and the rules imposed upon them by the cattle barons.

Stricken

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: struck by somethingdisabled or incapacitated by somethingremoved or rubbed out(warships): removed from a country's naval register, ex. the United States Naval Vessel Register

Part of speech: verb

Definition: (deleted, hit)