smite
verb (used with object)
to strike or hit hard, with or as with the hand, a stick, or other weapon.
had smitten
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past perfectof smite.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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He still had enemies, but he had smitten the big ones hip & thigh.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meantime in Memphis, Tenn., Federal Judge Harry Bennett Anderson had smitten the Lumber Code's price-fixing provision a stunning blow between the eyes.
From Time Magazine Archive
I was in my own room as usual—just myself, without obvious change: nothing had smitten me, or scathed me, or maimed me.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
It was undoubtedly a passion that had smitten him, but that passion was hallowed by the unselfish feelings of a profound affection.
From Cynthia Wakeham's Money by Anna Katharine Green
He travelled in biscuits, of which more anon, and Fate had smitten him very heavily, having at one stroke knocked all the beauty and joy out of his poor life.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
