Difference between Stricken and Ill

What is the difference between Stricken and Ill?

Stricken as an adjective is struck by something while Ill as an adjective is suffering from a disease.

Stricken

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: struck by something disabled or incapacitated by something removed 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)

Ill

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Suffering from a disease.Having an urge to vomit.Bad, often connoting abuse or neglect.Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way. [This sense sometimes declines in AAVE as ill, comparative iller, superlative illest.]Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be.

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: Badly; very incompletely. Often hyphenated to form an adjectival phrase.Scarcely.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.Harm or injury.Evil; moral wrongfulness.A physical ailment; an illness.Unfavorable remarks or opinions.PCP.

Example sentence: Cynicism is humor in ill health.

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