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
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
She had smarted under the sense of indignity.
From The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Mary Noailles Murfree
He had smarted under the indignities of house agents long enough, and this seemed to promise revenge—a fine revenge.
From Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
This was rather a sore point with Captain Jervoise, who, thorough Jacobite as he was, had smarted under the subservience of England to France during the reigns of the two previous monarchs.
From A Jacobite Exile Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
