smite
verb (used with object)
to strike or hit hard, with or as with the hand, a stick, or other weapon.
was smiting
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past progressiveof smite.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Then I was smiting, and gasping, sick with a sudden stench, the stench of the creatures which I had come already to know.
From The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" by William Hope Hodgson
And then I had the steering-oar by the middle, and was smiting downward with the loom over the side of the boat; but the thing was gone from my sight.
From The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" by William Hope Hodgson
Because the evening sun cast his shadow upon the side of the cañon, where it seemed to me in that momentary flash that one giant was smiting down another.
From The Mynns' Mystery by George Manville Fenn
As a consequence, an unwonted kalele was smiting the air.
From The Leopard Woman by Stewart Edward White
His conscience was smiting him, he said, for having deserted me.
From The Story of Charles Strange Vol. 2 (of 3) A Novel by Mrs. Henry Wood
