What's the difference between moonstricken and moonstruck?

Moonstricken


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Moonstruck


Definition:

  • (a.) Mentally affected or deranged by the supposed influence of the moon; lunatic.
  • (a.) Produced by the supposed influence of the moon.
  • (a.) Made sick by the supposed influence of the moon, as a human being; made unsuitable for food, as fishes, by such supposed influence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In 1987, Norman Jewison told him to quit trying to play Ronny, in Moonstruck , with art house surrealism.
  • (2) "I really didn't want to make that," he says of Moonstruck.
  • (3) In the 80s, Cher's acting career was big news: she carved a niche as a tough mother with a heart in Face and Mermaids, and won an Oscar in 1988 for the quick-witted Moonstruck, in which she played a no-nonsense New Yorker falling in love over opera.
  • (4) That glorious slap Cher gives Nicolas Cage in Moonstruck before yelling “Snap out of it”?
  • (5) Launching her campaign with a very unBloombergian five-borough walking tour and a gauzy YouTube video , shot 1950s-style at the counter of the Moonstruck Diner, the presumptive favorite struck a populist tone.

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