smite
verb (used with object)
to strike or hit hard, with or as with the hand, a stick, or other weapon.
have smote
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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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If the party who committed the theft had seen or knew the anguish of the victim for one-half hour, his conscience would have smote him to his grave.
From History of Kershaw's Brigade by D. Augustus Dickert
With that he raised his sword, And would have smote his breast; When, truer than his word, Good Eckart forward prest.
From Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck by Ludwig Tieck
This venerable bridge must have been admirably built to have withstood all the floods which have smote it in the course of six centuries.
From Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine by Edward Harrison Barker
Ha, Cavaliere," said the host, "thou would'st have smote, thou would'st have feined, thou would'st have traversed, eh, ere limbo should have held thy portly body?
From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Henry Curling
The shout which arose from a thousand throats rang to the welkin, and methinks must have smote with dread import upon the English ears.
From A Heroine of France by Evelyn Everett-Green
