smite
verb (used with object)
to strike or hit hard, with or as with the hand, a stick, or other weapon.
were 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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The Isolationists, supposedly on the defensive, were smiting their opponents hip & thigh.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thor's knees were smiting together, but he levelled the spear and made a feeble lunge toward the brute.
From Animal Heroes by Ernest Thompson Seton
And all this had gone by in a whirl, as it were, and the Danes were still striving to regain their lord, while Olaf and Ottar were smiting unceasingly.
From King Olaf's Kinsman A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler
Outside the day had become suddenly bright, the threatening storm had drifted away, and great shafts of coloured light from the pictured windows were smiting like arrows amidst his hearers....
From Soul of a Bishop by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
It looked as though his conscience were smiting him.
From Burning Sands by Arthur Weigal
