What's the difference between bitten and smitten?

Bitten


Definition:

  • (p. p.) of Bite
  • () p. p. of Bite.
  • (a.) Terminating abruptly, as if bitten off; premorse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It's an anxious time for those 180,000 teenagers chasing the last university places in clearing ; nails are bitten to the quick, eyes glazed from internet searching.
  • (2) Strikers, Hobblers, Conchies and Reds: A Radical History of Bristol 1880-1939 (2014) As the cultural consensus in British society moved further and further to the right, it seemed that the efforts to create a wider, more democratically inclusive history from below had bitten the dust.
  • (3) After hiding in bushes, where she was bitten by a snake, she decided to return to her family, only to find them being lined up next to one of the newly dug pits that had appeared near Tutsi homes.
  • (4) A 4-year-old girl was admitted 30 hours after being bitten by a black widow spider.
  • (5) From the mosquito catches and the results of their dissections for filarial larvae it could be estimated, that during the observation year a person in the savannah villages would be bitten annually by 18,165 and 36,450 vector mosquitoes respectively, and would receive 236 and 536 infective bites with 570 and 1211 infective larvae.
  • (6) There I got sunburnt, was bitten by a tick and chased by a sheep, and ran out of water, but I made it.
  • (7) Leather, who celebrated his seventh consecutive week at the top of the Amazon chart with his novella The Basement , about a serial killer in New York, also occupies fourth place with Hard Landing , another thriller, and 11th place with Once Bitten , a vampire novel.
  • (8) Last month, for example, the Daily Telegraph's Peter Oborne bemoaned their "devastating" fate, in a piece worth quoting at reasonable length, if only to prove that the idea of an out-of-touch elite blithely wreaking havoc is not the preserve of hard-bitten lefties.
  • (9) • This article was amended on 13 October 2014 to remove a statement that a two-year-old child in Meliandou, later identified as west Africa’s first case of Ebola, was bitten by a bat.
  • (10) "If we were to change that now because Luis Suárez has bitten someone then that would be a terrible message to send out.
  • (11) All the patients were bitten in the leg and the biopsy specimens were obtained from the contralateral gastrocnemius muscle in the middle of the lower leg.
  • (12) 100 consecutive patients whose finger had been bitten by another person, or who had cut it on a tooth in a fight, have been studied.
  • (13) The results demonstrate that meadow-mice, Columbian ground-squirrels, golden-mantled ground-squirrels, chipmunks and snowshoe hares (the latter to a lesser extent), when bitten by infected ticks, respond with rickettsiaemias of sufficient length and degree to infect normal larval D. andersoni.
  • (14) All were farm laborers and 35 of them were bitten in the lower limbs.
  • (15) None of the demographic characteristics available in this study distinguished between children who were bitten compared with those who were not bitten with the exception of number of days of enrollment.
  • (16) A young woman was bitten on the shoulder by a female Steatoda nobilis spider, in Worthing on the south coast of England.
  • (17) Twenty-one birds were bitten; chickens constituted 85.7%, turkeys 12% and ducks 4.8% of this number.
  • (18) The astute Rawling pointed out to Klitschko that his opponent was capable of anything – Chisora had bitten one opponent in the ring while kissing another at a press conference.
  • (19) The second patient, an inhabitant of northern Chile (fourth region), was allegedly bitten by Triatoma infestans and was an intravenous drug addict.
  • (20) Anticholinesterase did not improve paralysis in 2 patients bitten by kraits.

Smitten


Definition:

  • (p. p.) of Smite
  • () p. p. of Smite.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Rachel Cooke 7 THAI FOOD David Thompson (Pavillion Books, 2002) Buy it Australian chef David Thompson first went to Thailand almost accidentally when some holiday plans fell through, and was smitten by the country and its food.
  • (2) Molly Smitten-Downes, United Kingdom Facebook Twitter Pinterest At first glance, Molly Smitten-Downes' reassuringly double-barrelled name and cheery Leicestershire visage makes her the ideal Eurovision voting option for viewers desperate for Britain's immediate withdrawal from the EU.
  • (3) Vogue describes Miliband as smitten too, but in a more buttoned-up way: "She applies intellect but also psychology to the dossiers that she's studying," he said of Clinton.
  • (4) Some were so smitten by the island that they bought homes there, including Joseph P Kennedy, father of future president John F Kennedy.
  • (5) We were instantly smitten and eventually moved in together, sharing 18 happy years.
  • (6) Sharif later admitted that he had briefly imagined himself in love with Streisand, and also recalled being smitten by Ava Gardner , his co-star in Mayerling (1968), in which he brought a suitable intensity to the doomed Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, and Gardner, with some incongruity, played his mother.
  • (7) I don’t know how long I shall survive, having been smitten with this disease.
  • (8) As the film opens, Plath (played with consummate Gwyneth Paltrowness by Gwyneth Paltrow) has been smitten by the brash, handsome Hughes (played with verve and dash by Daniel Craig, who resembles the young Richard Burton, but seems a bit old for these scenes).
  • (9) Six years after the Steve Earle-produced Day After Tomorrow , she is making tentative plans to record another album (“I’m constantly aware of the need to be current and to make sure that the next album is always better than the last one.”) There is also the concert circuit, with which she is currently smitten.
  • (10) This year's British entrant, Molly Smitten-Downes, managed slightly better, her 40 points earning her a 17th place.
  • (11) Meanwhile Little Em'ly had been quite forgotten, as I was now smitten by Mr Spenlow's daughter, Dora, the most adorable and stupid girl you could ever hope to meet.
  • (12) I was smitten from the moment I saw her and swore to myself she was the girl for me, even though I was only 10 years old.
  • (13) Fox and Pollan met when she played his girlfriend on Family Ties and he was helplessly smitten when she told him off one day for being rude.
  • (14) Smitten-Downes had been among those tipped to place highly with self-penned song Children Of The Universe and wowed a lively audience in this year's host city of Copenhagen.
  • (15) Madonna Ashcombe House, Tollard Royal, Wiltshire The American superstar was smitten by the 18th-century, six-bedroom manor house when she first visited it, and immediately offered £10m for the 1,200-acre estate.
  • (16) The restaurants in New York are quite magnificent and I've met this charming actress called Ethel with whom I'm smitten.
  • (17) They fell easily into conversation and before long, Jenny was smitten.
  • (18) This interpretation leads us to the conclusion that, at the time of writing, Gramsci was in full possession of all his mental faculties, although worried by his long imprisonment and smitten by a profound disillusion as a result of the deformation of the "socialist" system.
  • (19) Smitten by the films' star, Kimberly Williams, he asked her to appear in the video; they fell in love, married in 2003, and have two sons.
  • (20) Stannis is quietly smitten, as most men would be by a malevolent force with great boobs spilling out of a corset whose hobbies include shagging, bleak threats and setting fire to massive piles of stuff on beaches.

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