smite
verb (used with object)
to strike or hit hard, with or as with the hand, a stick, or other weapon.
had smote
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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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Earlier, when on the beach that they were now returning from, Gabriele had smote her friend with a cold stare.
From Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Sills, Steven (Steven David Justin)
Adams immediately told them what happened, and desired them to hold the lanthorn to the face of the man on the ground, for he feared he had smote him fatally.
From Joseph Andrews Vol 1 by Fielding, Henry
The lights and coloring of the room that had smote his senses unpleasantly when he first entered had thrown him now into a kind of delicious fever.
From The Witness by Lutz, Grace Livingston Hill
I am certain I enjoyed that salvation that if they had smote me on one cheek, I could have turned to them the other also.
From George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy by Cooke, George Willis
Suddenly it stopped, with ears pricked, as if some sound had smote them.
From Rookwood by Ainsworth, William Harrison
