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
He pushes back his chair, smites his thigh with frustrated rage, thunders ultimatums, broods in angry silence over folded arms.
From Time Magazine Archive
No foot is on thy silent deck, Upon thy helm no hand, No ripple hath the soundless wind That smites thee from the land.
From Poetry of the Supernatural by Various
