smart
verb (used without object)
to be a source of sharp, local, and usually superficial pain, as a wound.
will smart
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future tenseof smart.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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So what will smart business people be doing to profit under the next four years while Barack Obama is President?
From Inc ● Nov. 14, 2012
In particular, the loss of Koder will smart.
From BusinessWeek ● Apr. 18, 2011
The wounds made by injustice, fancied or real, will smart; and just as naturally will men retain in their hearts aversion for all that which, for them, stands for such injustice.
From Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals by John H. (John Henry) Stapleton
Of course, your eyes will smart and be red to-morrow.
From A Diversity of Creatures by Rudyard Kipling
We haven't broke up the party yet; We're rough, and tough, and hearty yet; Who talks of going pays what's owing, And there's a bill will smart ye yet!
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
