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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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
Obviously the recent U. S. renascence in bathroom fixtures and furniture has smitten the automobile.
From Time Magazine Archive
The deed which ye have seen enacted to-night has smitten me sorely.
From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various
Low prices would have done the business as effectually, though not quite so speedily, as the pestilence which has smitten the potato-field.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 by Various
