smite
verb (used with object)
to strike or hit hard, with or as with the hand, a stick, or other weapon.
had been smiting
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past perfect progressiveof smite.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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He got up from his chair as the intolerable memory smote him again, as it had been smiting him these three hours since the end had come.
From Red Pepper Burns by Richmond, Grace S. (Grace Smith)
Cameron had been smiting with the strength of ten immediately on my front.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
Marsh, who had been smiting all and sundry since completing his hundred, ran out to a slow ball from the Hittite captain and missed it.
From "Pip" A Romance of Youth by Hay, Ian
