conscience-stricken - transcription, translation and pronunciation online

Transcription and pronunciation of the word "conscience-stricken" in British and American variants. Detailed translation and examples.

conscience-stricken
[ˈkɒn.ʃənsˌstrɪk.ən]
[ˈkɑːn-]
Definitions
adjective
made uneasy by a guilty conscience.
she was still conscience-stricken over her outburst
Examples
News of them did much to persuade conscience-stricken clergy to break ranks and join the third in June, so that some action might be taken.
Whenever I thought of the innocent little children who were torn from home, school friends and congenial surroundings, I was conscience-stricken .
They'd have said I was only a poor kid, conscience-stricken for having wished the man dead, and that he wouldn't have gone charging into the water if he hadn't been in a belligerent rage.
Her brothers, observing how she cherishes the plant, steal the pot, discover the mouldering head, and fly, conscience-stricken , into banishment.
A Hindu doctor feels conscience-stricken at being unable to stem the bloodshed.
Unfortunately, 10 or 20 years after an execution, a confession often emerges from a criminal who is conscience-stricken or terminally ill.
I was most conscience-stricken by my anguished looking mother's tearful eyes; an unproud image now permanently carved into my subconscious.
Perhaps you as a conscience-stricken Christian have found reassurance of His cleansing today.
As you might expect, his words do not approach cliche, describing the pain in the conscience-stricken priest's feet, for example, as ‘his daily stigmata’.
Indeed, the prime impulse behind the campaign to save nature, and expressly to husband wilderness, was aghast awareness of its imminent disappearance, in tandem with conscience-stricken guilt at their forebears' rapacity and greed.