Crushed
Struck
Struck adjective - (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Deaths are completely random, anywhere from struck by lightning while indoors, to crushed by a giant Hello Kitty figure.
- Aornis Hades from the Thursday Next series had the latent ability to cause extremely unlikely misfortunes: being struck by lightning, or being crushed by a car jettisoned from a zeppelin.
Source: Winds of Destiny, Change -
In Psychonauts, Becky exclaims this after an actress is crushed to death by a falling stage light, as The Phantom has struck.
Source: Oh, No... Not Again!
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