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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Bells, beyond the forest ringing, lo, I hasten to the world again; For the sun has smote the empty windows, and the day is on the wane!
From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Kendall, Henry
"Similar thoughts has smote my colossal intellect, Butch!" responded the bean-pole Hicks, gladsomely.
From T. Haviland Hicks Senior by Elderdice, J. Raymond
"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 Harris, Credo Fitch
“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 Howard, J. J.
Death has smote Them to perpetual oneness who were twain.
From Men, Women and Ghosts by Lowell, Amy
