smite
verb (used with object)
to strike or hit hard, with or as with the hand, a stick, or other weapon.
smites
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present tense formof smite (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Indecent exposure … Fantasy author Terry Goodkind has publicly castigated a pirate of his ebook Wizard hero Richard Rahl smites wrongdoers with his Sword of Truth.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 11, 2012
"He plays silly shots to get out and bowls lots of pies but inbetween times he smites big sixes and bowls unplayable deliveries."
From The Guardian ● Jan. 12, 2011
Pareja nods away a long high ball, but it drops out to the onrushing Russian, who smites the thing first time, dipping and fizzing past Dykan in the Spartak goal.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 19, 2010
The inevitable suspicion smites neutral economists that much of this iron and steel must be going secretly into munitions.
From Time Magazine Archive
Never you be afeard, Ratie, Him'll take kere ob you, an' all sich as you, bekase He loves dem dat He smites and afflicts.
From The Freedmen's Book by Lydia Maria Francis Child
