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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The man placed a foot upon the carcass of his kill, and, with his handsome face raised toward the full moon, gave voice to the most frightful cry that ever had smote upon her ears.
From Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The bundles on the floor and the old trunk had smote his heart with a fierce pain that the impulsive warmth of his greeting and the telling of his rescue could only partly ease.
From Rose of Old Harpeth by Maria Thompson Daviess
This is more likely, from the circumstance, that when I struck the sea, I felt as if some one had smote me slantingly across the shoulder and along part of my right side.
From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville
Suddenly it stopped, with ears pricked, as if some sound had smote them.
From Rookwood by William Harrison Ainsworth
He looked as if the words had smote him dumb.
From Daisy Burns (Volume 1) by Julia Kavanagh
