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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Her dauntless and defiant spirit had already precipitated itself forward and was smiting the imperious beast full in his blazing eyes.
From Eleven Possible Cases by Franklin Fyles
Indeed Stiefel made Lenette give him her hand as a pledge that she would always stand still, like Joshua's sun, while Firmian was smiting the foe with pen and scourge.
From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul
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
The moment before, Mr Russell was peering down uneasily, and his conscience was smiting him for allowing so young an officer to undertake the onerous task of descending into that loathsome den.
From The Black Bar by M.L.P.
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
