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smite

[smahyt] / smaɪt /
VERB
destroy
Synonyms
STRONGEST
afflict
STRONG
attack belt blast buffet chasten chastise clobber dash defeat hit knock slap smack sock strike swat visit wallop whack
Antonyms
STRONG
aid assist boost cheer comfort compliment encourage fail help inspirit lose praise surrender tap

Example Sentences

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“Maggie Wilson? Cherokee? I knew your daddy. He came here a time or two. Was real proud of you and your little sister. And smitten with your mom. Wait there.”

From Literature

The adaptation retained the 18th-century setting and the central plot: The teenage siren Manon, on her way to a convent, runs off with a smitten young aristocrat, the Chevalier Des Grieux.

From The Wall Street Journal

And it’s not just because they’re smitten with Shakespeare’s pretty words.

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

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Bedraggled and bleeding, he opens his eyes to find Anna ministering to him and is rhapsodically smitten.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.