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smite

verb as in destroy

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Imprecatory prayer: The act of praying for God to smite his enemies.

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“Curtis and I served together in the state Senate, he is your state senator. He is Republican. I am a Democrat. But when we team up in a bipartisan manner, we will smite evil.”

“He worked with my papa once, a long time ago. He’s not like the other knights. Ilya Muromets uses holy magic to smite his enemies, and Alyosha Popovich uses strength magic to crush them. But Dobrynya’s magic is...”

“The new liberal-driven meme is meant to depict Biden as having superpowers, able to smite an al-Qaeda leader and pass legislation through Congress with ease,” The Washington Post’s Matt Viser wrote in August 2022.

“That’s how I relate to it. I made peace with that because I thought God was this person that wanted to smite me. Like, ‘I’m going to hell because I’m wrong.’

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

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