struck

absurd, close, curious, dumb, good, metropolitan, nostalgic

I was struck by how curious the old house looked after all these years.

batter, got, missed, name

The batter struck the ball hard into left field for a home run.

area, astonishment, chord, home, jones, lightning, music, pole

The terrible storm struck home when lightning hit our neighbor's house.

out, up, with

A brilliant idea struck me while I was walking home from work yesterday.

barely, spectacularly

The news struck spectacularly hard when they announced the factory closure last week.