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SMITE (smit, smitten, smote)

Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

Irregular inflected forms: smit  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation, smitten  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation, smote  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 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 weaponplay

2. affect suddenly with deep feelingplay

3. cause physical pain or suffering inplay

  Familiarity information: SMITE used as a verb is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


SMITE (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they smite  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it smites  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: smote  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: smitten  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: smiting  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


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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