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smite (smīt)

transitive verb smote, smit′·ten or smote, smit′·ing

  1. Now Rare
    1. to hit or strike hard
    2. to bring into a specified condition by or as by a blow to smite someone dead
    3. to defeat, punish, destroy, or kill
  2. to strike or attack with powerful or disastrous effect
  3. to affect strongly and suddenly: with some feeling smitten with dread
  4. to disquiet mentally; distress smitten by conscience
  5. to strike or impress favorably; inspire with love smitten with her charms

Etymology: ME smiten < OE smitan, akin to Ger schmeissen, to throw < IE base *smē-, to smear, smear on, stroke on

intransitive verb

Now Rare to hit or strike hard

smite Related Forms
smit′er noun
smite Synonyms

smite

v.

strike, beat, belabor; see hit 1.

smite Usage Examples

Object

  • Philistine: He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.
  • shepherd: How is the shepherd smitten, and the flock scattered!
  • pair: The smitten pair - who split up in 2002 - left the club hand-in-hand.
  • rock: When God brought His people out of Egypt He gave them manna from heaven and water out of the smitten rock.
  • earth: The object, however, here is, " Lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
  • nation: So verse 15 says, " With this sword He will smite the nations.

Modifies a noun

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Modifying Another Word

  • instantly: Newly returned from France, she catches the eye of Ben Coulson and he is instantly smitten.
  • suddenly: At the wedding feast Eochaid's younger brother Ailell was suddenly smitten with a desperate love and longing for Etain.
  • immediately: In a moment of workshop exploration, I found a lathe, had a play and was immediately smitten.
  • totally: He is also totally smitten for Dawn the office receptionist.
  • completely: I am in the middle of Ultimate World and am completely smitten.
  • so: Ahh, she was lovely, Cupid could see why Richard was so smitten.

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • down: Or will I smite down upon thee with great vengeance - he he he.
  • upon: Then Brihtnoth drew his blade, broad and of burnished edge, and smote upon his mail.

Followed by a transitive particle

  • down: With this word, thou shall smite down all manner of thought under the cloud of forgetting.

Preposition: with

  • love: His heart may be smitten with the love of the truth, and his mind be fully fraught with its arguments.
  • disease: But she was taken prisoner and smitten with disease, and during the period of her absence all earthly fertility was denied.

Preposition: upon

  • thigh: It is your duty to smite upon the thigh.
smite Quotes

Theyare sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs 578 Grate on their scrannel Pipes of wretched straw, The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swollen with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread, Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said, But that two-handed engine at the door, Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.

—Milton,John