smart
verb (used without object)
to be a source of sharp, local, and usually superficial pain, as a wound.
had smarted
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past perfectof smart.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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At the Grant reception, he had been piqued by her sarcasms; he had smarted under the surprise which her laughing coolness and gayety gave him.
From Horace Chase by Constance Fenimore Woolson
He had been cherishing a fiction that he was in love with Miss Dwight and more than once he had smarted beneath the lash of her contempt.
From The Highgrader by D. C. Hutchison
In a generation which had smarted under the persecution of Antiochus and shed its blood in defence of its liberty and ancestral traditions, such bitter fanaticism is not unintelligible.
From Introduction to the Old Testament by John Edgar McFadyen
These sentiments had not escaped the observing eye of Monsieur de Fontaine, who more than once, when his two elder girls were married, had smarted under Emilie's sarcasm.
From The Ball at Sceaux by Honoré de Balzac
Very emphatically was it said by one whose whole being had smarted under such affliction, “Adder's poison is under their lips.”
From Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series by Frederick William Robertson
