Smitten
['smɪtn]
Definition
(adj.) (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming; 'conscience-smitten'; 'awe-struck' .
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Definition
(p. p.) of Smite
(-) p. p. of Smite.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
part. [1]. Struck.[2]. Killed, slain, destroyed.[3]. Afflicted, chastened, punished.[4]. Charmed, captivated, fascinated, delighted, pleased, attracted, taken.
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Definition
pa.p. of smite.
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Examples
- 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.
- In another instant you will be smitten down, writhing to your death in horrible agony. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The one your friend Lefferts seems so smitten by. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Another moment, and Mr. Thornton might be smitten down,--he whom she had urged and goaded to come to this perilous place. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
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