smite
verb (used with object)
to strike or hit hard, with or as with the hand, a stick, or other weapon.
is smiting
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present progressiveof smite (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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For man's integrity and happiness, therefore, conscience smites and is smiting unceasingly.
From The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service by Hillis, Newell Dwight
A plague of frivolity, more deadly than the locusts of Egypt, has fallen upon us, and is smiting all our green places with barrenness.
From The Teaching of Jesus by Jackson, George
Again the sun is smiting with hot wrath the unoffending earth; the flowers nod drowsily or lie half dead of languor, their gay leaves touching the ground.
From Molly Bawn by Hamilton, Margaret Wolfe
Look at him; he is smiting his breast as he cries, "Truly, this was the son of God!"
From The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little by Kleiser, Grenville
