smite
verb (used with object)
to strike or hit hard, with or as with the hand, a stick, or other weapon.
have smitten
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present perfectof smite.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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The sun may have smitten her, or the storm driven her against a rock.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by John Wilson
I felt very serious; Love seemed to have smitten me, and under that banner, I earnestly hoped that I might be enabled to partake of whatever might be set before me in the banqueting house.
From The Annual Monitor for 1851 or, Obituary of the members of the Society of Friends in Great Britain and Ireland, for the year 1850 by Anonymous
“Dost think we have smitten them so they will give over all their evil design?”
From Cedric, the Forester by Bernard Gay Marshall
Borne was she thence away, Walk she could no longer; insensible she lay Through bitterness of sorrow, so lovely and so still, As if Death would have smitten, yet wanted heart to kill.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
Tall, strong, fiercely indignant, he towered over the youth as if he could willingly have smitten him to the earth.
From Under False Pretences A Novel by Adeline Sergeant
