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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
smite
verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
smitten with/by sth
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ She waited for realisation, for pain to smite her.
▪ The trees are splintered, crushed, and broken, as if smitten by thunderbolts.
▪ Then, without warning, a tremendous blast smote the city, knocking pedestrians to the ground.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Smite

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.]

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. To put to rout in battle; to overthrow by war.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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

Smite

Smite \Smite\, v. i. To strike; to collide; to beat. [Archaic]

The heart melteth, and the knees smite together.
--Nah. ii. 10.

Smite

Smite \Smite\, n. The act of smiting; a blow.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
smite

"to hit, strike, beat," mid-12c., from Old English smitan, which however is attested only as "to daub, smear on; soil, pollute, blemish, defile" (strong verb, past tense smat, past participle smiten), from Proto-Germanic *smitan (cognates: Swedish smita, Danish smide "to smear, fling," Old Frisian smita, Middle Low German and Middle Dutch smiten "to cast, fling," Dutch smijten "to throw," Old High German smizan "to rub, strike," German schmeißen "to cast, fling," Gothic bismeitan "to spread, smear"). "The development of the various senses is not quite clear, but that of throwing is perh. the original one" [OED]. Watkins suggests "the semantic channel may have been slapping mud on walls in wattle and daub construction" and connects it with PIE *sme- "to smear;" Klein's sources also say this.\n

\nSense of "slay in combat" (c.1300) is from Biblical expression smite to death, first attested c.1200. Meaning "visit disastrously" is mid-12c., also Biblical. Meaning "strike with passion or emotion" is from c.1300.

Wiktionary
smite

vb. 1 (lb en archaic) To hit. 2 To strike down or kill with godly force. 3 To injure with divine power. 4 To put to rout in battle; to overthrow by war. 5 To afflict; to chasten; to punish. 6 (lb en figuratively now only in passive) To strike with love or infatuation.

WordNet
smite
  1. v. inflict a heavy blow on, with the hand, a tool, or a weapon

  2. affect suddenly with deep feeling; "He was smitten with love for this young girl"

  3. cause pain or suffering in; "afflict with the plague"; "That debasement of the verbal currency that afflicts terms used in advertisement" [syn: afflict]

  4. [also: smote, smitten, smit]

Wikipedia
Smite

Smite may refer to:

  • A smite, otherwise known as a dueling scar
Smite (video game)

Smite is a third-person multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game developed and published by Hi-Rez Studios for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. In Smite, players control a god, goddess, or other mythological figure and take part in arena combat, using abilities and team tactics against other player-controlled gods and non-player-controlled minions.

Usage examples of "smite".

Then the courage came into his body, and with a great might he abraid upon his feet, and smote the black and yellow knight upon the helm by an overstroke so fierce that the sword sheared away the third part of his head, as it had been a rotten cheese.

But now the trumpets blew a fanfare, and forth rode divers gallant knights, who, spurring rearing steeds, charged amain to gore, to smite and batter each other with right good will while the concourse shouted, caps waved and scarves and ribands fluttered.

Hiawatha Smote amain the hollow oak-tree, Rent it into shreds and splinters, Left it lying there in fragments.

Technician Arvo Gaspar was so deeply smitten that he cleverly hatched a complicated deception, and they eventually married.

Does not the Baas remember how we were told at the Black Kloof that those who dared to leave the Land of Heu-Heu were always smitten with some sickness and died?

Perhaps the fact that Smit had a baddish reputation was part of the attraction.

Love increased my despair, for I saw myself on the point of losing the esteem of a woman by whom I was smitten, and the anxiety I felt did not escape M.

He went further than he had looked for, ere he found a prey to his mind, and then he smote a roe with a shaft and slew her, and broke up the carcase and dight it duly, and so went his ways back.

Otter smote not Ralph squarely, but Ralph smote full amidst of his shield, and so dight him that he well-nigh fell, and could not master his horse, but yet just barely kept his saddle.

He held it in his hand a while wondering where he could have seen such like stuff before, that it should smite a pang into his heart, and suddenly called to mind the little hall at Bourton Abbas with the oaken benches and the rush-strewn floor, and this same flower-broidered green cloth dancing about the naked feet of a fair damsel, as she moved nimbly hither and thither dighting him his bever.

He had probably made Madison go with him today to run the traps, and Doxy, obviously smitten with their guest, had tagged along.

But the right hand of the Lord, which erewhile had smote his enemy with consuming fire, was magnified in strength, and in His manifold power swept this evil-doer from the face of the earth.

But just at that moment a heavy object smote me a resounding whack between my shoulders that nearly felled me to the ground.

But that totally unexpected coup de foudre that had smitten her after the chance meeting with Harry Kennedy was the last straw.

And the old world of our captivities May then become a smitten glimpse of ruin, Like one where vanished hewers have had their day Of wrath on Lebanon.