smite
verb (used with object)
to strike or hit hard, with or as with the hand, a stick, or other weapon.
has smitten
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present perfectof smite (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Obviously the recent U. S. renascence in bathroom fixtures and furniture has smitten the automobile.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not up for action at the Generalissimo's conference was what a government spokesman blandly called "the worst drought which has smitten Central China in half a century, or perhaps in living memory."
From Time Magazine Archive
Even George Wallace, who has smitten New York more vigorously than any politician alive, said that he would no longer oppose loan guarantees for the city.
From Time Magazine Archive
He has smitten the leaves of the gray old trees, Where their green came forth, And the winds, which follow wherever he goes, Have shaken them down to earth.
From Leaves of Life For Daily Inspiration by Margaret Bird Steinmetz
He has smitten the leaves of the gray old trees where their pleasant green came forth, And the winds, which follow wherever he goes, have shaken them down to earth.
From The Frost Spirit and Others from Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems Volume II., the Works of Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier
