smote

[ smoht ]
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verb
  1. a simple past tense of smite.

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How to use smote in a sentence

  • I was sure the owner committed the cardinal sin of improperly storing his wine, and I smote him with all the fervor of a zealot.

    The Myth About Old Wine | Keith Wallace | January 26, 2010 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • Ramona's saddened face smote on all the women's hearts as they met her the next morning.

    Ramona | Helen Hunt Jackson
  • A quick vision of death smote her soul, and for a second of time appalled and enfeebled her senses.

  • Tressan smote the table before him a blow that shook some of the dust out of the papers that cumbered it.

    St. Martin's Summer | Rafael Sabatini
  • This made Jahweh so angry that he smote the people, and slew more than fifty thousand of them.

    God and my Neighbour | Robert Blatchford
  • The memory of the hawk-nosed, steel-eyed officer who rode from Kurnaul to Meerut in twenty-four hours smote him like a whip.

    The Red Year | Louis Tracy

British Dictionary definitions for smote

smote

/ (sməʊt) /


verb
  1. the past tense of smite

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