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SMITE (smit, smitten, smote)
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, smitten , smote Dictionary entry overview: What does smite mean?
• SMITE (verb)
The verb SMITE has 3 senses:
1. inflict a heavy blow on, with the hand, a tool, or a weapon
2. affect suddenly with deep feeling
3. cause physical pain or suffering in
Familiarity information: SMITE used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
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... he / she / it smites Past simple: smote
Past participle: smitten
-ing form: smiting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Inflict a heavy blow on, with the hand, a tool, or a weapon
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "smite" is one way to...):
hit (deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Sentence example:
The fighter managed to smite his opponent
Sense 2
Meaning:
Affect suddenly with deep feeling
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Context example:
He was smitten with love for this young girl
Hypernyms (to "smite" is one way to...):
affect; impress; move; strike (have an emotional or cognitive impact upon)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Sense 3
Meaning:
Cause physical pain or suffering in
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
afflict; smite
Context example:
afflict with the plague
Hypernyms (to "smite" is one way to...):
damage (inflict damage upon)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "smite"):
visit (assail)
blight; plague (cause to suffer a blight)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Context examples
His haggard face smote her to the heart again.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Poor Brandon! he is quite smitten already, and he is very well worth setting your cap at, I can tell you, in spite of all this tumbling about and spraining of ankles.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I smote seven at one blow.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Brother Mark of the Spicarium is sore smitten with a fever and could not come.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The thunder of the streets smote upon his ears.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
It smote Miss Brewster likewise, a vague and nameless terror rushing into her eyes as she regarded Wolf Larsen.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
I could only judge that all had perished, and my heart smote me sorely that I had not been there to perish with them.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
His chastisements are mighty; and one smote me which has humbled me for ever.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Elizabeth was of a calmer and more concentrated disposition; but, with all my ardour, I was capable of a more intense application and was more deeply smitten with the thirst for knowledge.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
He smote her in the face, and she fled.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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