smite
verb (used with object)
to strike or hit hard, with or as with the hand, a stick, or other weapon.
has smote
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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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“Here bide ye in peace, my companions good, All under the grass-green hill; Langben the Giant has smote me to day, I doubt I shall fare but ill.”
From Romantic Ballads, Translated from the Danish; and Miscellaneous Pieces by George Henry Borrow
“Here stands the furious boar that wastes our grounds: “My hand has smote him.”
From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by J. J. Howard
"Y-yes, I suppose so; and the flaming sword has smote us, so we have to be circumspect forever and ever."
From Wings of the Wind by Credo Fitch Harris
Death has smote Them to perpetual oneness who were twain.
From Men, Women and Ghosts by Amy Lowell
"Similar thoughts has smote my colossal intellect, Butch!" responded the bean-pole Hicks, gladsomely.
From T. Haviland Hicks Senior by J. Raymond Elderdice
