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smote

American  
[smoht] / smoʊt /

verb

  1. a simple past tense of smite.

smote British  
/ sməʊt /

verb

  1. the past tense of smite

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I’ve never touched a gun nor smote anything larger than a stink bug.

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I smote the table hard and rose up as I said to him:—

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The feeling, the announcement sent through me, was something stronger than was consistent with joy—something that smote and stunned: it was, I think almost fear.

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No wonder since we look it, and once more the humiliation of having nothing, not even a cooking pot, smote at me.

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Achren raised the sword above her head and smote with all her force against a stone pillar.

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