Smite
[smaɪt]
Definition
(verb.) inflict a heavy blow on, with the hand, a tool, or a weapon.
(verb.) affect suddenly with deep feeling; 'He was smitten with love for this young girl'.
Checker: Selma--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To strike; to inflict a blow upon with the hand, or with any instrument held in the hand, or with a missile thrown by the hand; as, to smite with the fist, with a rod, sword, spear, or stone.
(v. t.) To cause to strike; to use as an instrument in striking or hurling.
(v. t.) To destroy the life of by beating, or by weapons of any kind; to slay by a blow; to kill; as, to smite one with the sword, or with an arrow or other instrument.
(v. t.) To put to rout in battle; to overthrow by war.
(v. t.) To blast; to destroy the life or vigor of, as by a stroke or by some visitation.
(v. t.) To afflict; to chasten; to punish.
(v. t.) To strike or affect with passion, as love or fear.
(v. i.) To strike; to collide; to beat.
(n.) The act of smiting; a blow.
Typed by Garrett
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Strike, beat, box, cuff, buffet.[2]. Kill, slay, destroy.[3]. Afflict, chasten, punish.
v. n. Strike, collide.
Inputed by Kari
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Strike, beat, buffet, chastise, blast, afflict, kill, slay, punish, surprise,captivate
ANT:Soothe, smooth, caress, relieve, console, repel, alienate
Edited by Gertrude
Definition
v.t. to strike with the fist hand or weapon: to beat: to kill: to overthrow in battle: to affect with feeling: (B.) to blast: to afflict.—v.i. to strike:—pa.t. smōte; pa.p. smitt′en.—n. Smī′ter.—Smite off to cut off; Smite out to knock out; Smite with the tongue (B.) to reproach to revile.
Editor: Ricky
Examples
- She saw clearly enough the whole situation, yet she was fettered: she could not smite the stricken soul that entreated hers. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Beware, cried the man, God hears you, and will smite your stony heart in his wrath; his poisoned arrows fly, his dogs of death are unleashed! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I loved him well--too well not to smite out of my path even Jealousy herself, when she would have obstructed a kind farewell. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I am er man,' said Mr Dolls, trying to smite himself on the breast, but bringing his hand to bear upon the vicinity of his eye, 'er do it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Many, already smitten, went home only to die: some died at the school, and were buried quietly and quickly, the nature of the malady forbidding delay. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I was in my own room as usual--just myself, without obvious change: nothing had smitten me, or scathed me, or maimed me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Now he was smitten with compunction, yet irritated that so trifling an omission should be stored up against him after nearly two years of marriage. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The grandson, however, being smitten by a sudden wish to see the house himself, proposes to join the party. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Athens, prospering for a time after the Persian repulse, was smitten by the plague, in which Pericles, its greatest ruler, died (428 B.C.). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There Sennacherib's army was smitten by a pestilence, a disaster described in the nineteenth chapter of the Second Book of Kings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- If it had a new meaning that smote him to the heart, the change was in his perception, not in her. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Innocent as I had been of any intention to terrify and agitate her, my heart smote me as I looked at the poor, pale, frightened face. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Conscience smote the gentle Twemlow pale. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- This praise and confidence smote Dobbin's heart very keenly. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Yet as the laugh died, a kind of wrath smote me, and then bitterness followed: it was the rock struck, and Meribah's waters gushing out. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It smote upon his heart to feel that she hid her thin, worn shoe. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- In effect, I am of no country,' said Mr Blandois, stretching out his leg and smiting it: 'I descend from half-a-dozen countries. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Right for all that,' said Mr. Peggotty, stopping in his roar, and smiting his hands together; 'fur here she is! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- No,' he said, smiting the table with his fist, 'I do not. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- But, instead of talking, I'll bring my hand down upon you with all its weight,' heavily smiting the table with great force, 'and smash you! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Test this flint-like surface, he cried, smiting the solid rock that confined us. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- She's a honour to her sex,' said Mr. Sikes, filling his glass, and smiting the table with his enormous fist. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
Checker: Pamela