Crossword clues for smit
smit
- Clobbered, old style
- Struck, old style
- Hit, biblically
- Hit, old-style
- Inspired with love, old-style
- Hard hit
- Struck, to Spenser
- Struck, in old parlance
- Singing an olde-fashioned love song?
- Lovestruck, old style
- Infatuated: Colloq
- Hit, Old Testament-style
- Hit, in the past
- Hit hard by love, old-style
- Head over heels in love, old-style
- Hard-hit, old-style
- "__ with the love of sacred song": Milton
- Struck, old-style
- Slugged, old-style
- Struck, once
- Struck down, old-style
- Goo-goo-eyed, old-style
- Infatuated, old-style
- Hit, old style
- Hit, biblical style
- Hit hard, old style
- In love old style
- Struck hard, old style
- Clobbered, in days of yore
- Old rhyme for hit
- Struck, in days of yore
- Thwacked
- Enamored, old style
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Smit \Smit\, rare
imp. & p. p. of Smite.
--Spenser.
Smit with the beauty of so fair a scene.
--Cowper.
Smit \Smit\, obs.
3d. pers. sing. pres. of Smite.
--Chaucer.
Smite \Smite\ (sm[imac]t), v. t. [imp. Smote (sm[=o]t), rarely Smit (sm[i^]t); p. p. Smitten (sm[i^]t"t'n), rarely Smit, or Smote; p. pr. & vb. n. Smiting (sm[imac]t"[i^]ng).] [AS. sm[=i]tan to smite, to soil, pollute; akin to OFries. sm[=i]ta to smite, LG. smiten, D. smijten, G. schmeissen, OHG. sm[=i]zan to smear, stroke, OSw. & dial. Sw. smita to smite, Dan. smide to throw, Goth. bismeitan, to anoint, besmear; cf. Skr. m[=e]d to be fat. The original sense seems to have been, to daub on, to smear. Cf. Smut.]
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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.
Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
--Matt. v. 39.And David . . . took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead.
--1 Sam. xvii. 49. -
To cause to strike; to use as an instrument in striking or hurling.
Prophesy, and smite thine hands together.
--Ezek. xxi. 14.Saul . . . smote the javelin into the wall.
--1 Sam. xix. 10. 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.
To put to rout in battle; to overthrow by war.
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To blast; to destroy the life or vigor of, as by a stroke or by some visitation.
The flax and the barly was smitten.
--Ex. ix. 31. -
To afflict; to chasten; to punish.
Let us not mistake God's goodness, nor imagine, because he smites us, that we are forsaken by him.
--Wake. -
To strike or affect with passion, as love or fear.
The charms that smite the simple heart.
--Pope.Smit with the love of sister arts we came.
--Pope.To smite off, to cut off.
To smite out, to knock out, as a tooth.
--Exod. xxi. 27.To smite with the tongue, to reproach or upbraid; to revile. [Obs.]
--Jer. xviii. 1
Wiktionary
vb. (context archaic rare English) (en-past of: smite)
WordNet
v. inflict a heavy blow on, with the hand, a tool, or a weapon
affect suddenly with deep feeling; "He was smitten with love for this young girl"
cause pain or suffering in; "afflict with the plague"; "That debasement of the verbal currency that afflicts terms used in advertisement" [syn: afflict]
See smite
Wikipedia
Smit is a Dutch occupational surname It represents an archaic spelling of the Dutch word "smid" for " smith" (metal worker) and is the Dutch equivalent of the English surname Smith.
Usage examples of "smit".
Jackhammer Smit put his hands on his hips, and tilting his head back slightly he looked down at Hoppie and me with eyes of anthracite and doom.
They all told him they had their money on him and how Jackhammer Smit was weak down below.
Well, Smit is called Jackhammer because, if he wants, he can hold a jackhammer in place on his own pushing against it with his stomach and holding it in both hands.
We entered to find Jackhammer Smit, his seconds and four other men, three of them ordinary size and one of them not much bigger than me.
Hoppie remained seated on the tiny stool, Jackhammer Smit continued to stand, looking big and hard as a mountain.
Hoppie had once again calmly seated himself on the tiny stool, while Jackhammer Smit was snorting and throwing punches at an imaginary opponent soon to become Hoppie.
Nels pulled it out of the ring and Jackhammer Smit stormed towards him.
Jackhammer Smit let go two left jabs and a right uppercut, all of which missed Hoppie by a mile.
Hoppie had moved out of reach by the time Jackhammer Smit could bring his gloves back into position in front of his face.
Hoppie continued to back-pedal most of the time, making Smit chase him around the ring.
Jackhammer Smit was having trouble with the southpaw and was showing his frustration.
Hoppie was forced to move in close enough for Smit to hit him in the gut and around the kidneys.
Hoppie missed with the right and was thrown slightly off balance as Smit followed through with an uppercut that caught the smaller man under the heart.
The tiny referee was standing over Hoppie and yelling at Jackhammer Smit to get into a neutral corner, but the big man just stood there his chest heaving, waiting for Hoppie to rise so that he could finish him off.
The referee signalled for the fight to continue and Jackhammer Smit lumbered across the ring to finish Hoppie off.