Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Preterit of
smite .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imp. (and rare p. p.) of
smite .
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- verb Simple past of
smite .
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Examples
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And the name smote me, with a frightenedness of fresh awakening memories.
The Night Land 2007
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The word smote upon her like a touch of ice and her heart quailed.
The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus Lawrence Turnbull
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The word smote her ear with all the impact of a cannon shot.
The Land of Promise D. Torbett
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When 'Omer smote' is bloomin 'lyre, He'd' eard men sing by land an 'sea; An' what he thought he might require, 'e went and took, the same as me.
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The name smote the Señora like a spear-thrust, There could be no stronger evidence of the abnormal excitement under which she had been laboring for the last twenty-four hours, than the fact that she had not once, during all this time, thought to ask herself what Father Salvierderra would say, or might command, in this crisis.
Ramona 1921
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And the name smote me, with a frightenedness of fresh awakening memories.
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The word smote on the captive like the missile of a catapult.
A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. William Stearns Davis 1903
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Everybody turned from me to see that, and I watched wearily the straining backs and elbows of the little fellows, and the shouts of encouragement and of triumph when the winner came in smote my ears as through water, with curious shocks of sound.
The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century 1900
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At last Dare understood, and the sudden utter blankness of his expression smote Ruth to the heart.
The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers Mary Cholmondeley 1892
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Henry without a word smote him in the face with such force that the man fell flat and Henry thrust him aside, resuming his original position.
bilby commented on the word smote
"With a blast of its siren the huge electric locomotive burst out of the shed and thundered around the track. It smote Ned Newton's mind suddenly that the inventor was going to 'take a chance' on this evening and try to get some speed out of the huge machine."
- Victor Appleton, 'Tom Swift And His Electric Locomotive'.
August 28, 2009