What's the difference between smash and smite?

Smash


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush.
  • (v. i.) To break up, or to pieces suddenly, as the result of collision or pressure.
  • (n.) A breaking or dashing to pieces; utter destruction; wreck.
  • (n.) Hence, bankruptcy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I can't wait to see what Christie and her patriarchy-smashing pals do next.
  • (2) At one, in the Gun and Dog pub in Leeds on Tuesday, a witness described how the meeting descended into chaos when one of the rebels smashed a glass and threatened to attack Griffin supporter Mark Collett.
  • (3) Shaker Aamer , a Saudi who lived in London before travelling to Afghanistan, has given a statement to one of his lawyers in which he says British intelligence officers were present while Americans beat him and smashed his head against a wall.
  • (4) Bloody odd combination but those Orange Foam Headphones would blast those magnificent records into my developing brain over and over again" chernypyos – Björk's Human Behavior and Sinead O'Connor's Fire On Babylon: "bjork's 'human behavior' and sinead o'connor's "fire on babylon" oddly stick in my head from that one evening walking in the woods, breathing the damp air, and feeling pleasantly invisible" Pyromancer – REM – Automatic for the People Blood Sugar Sex Magic Pearl Jam - Vs RATM's first album Portishead Maxinquaye by Tricky Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream "I used to go to the local library and take out a CD (50p for 3 weeks!
  • (5) It may have been like punk never ‘appened, but you caught a whiff of the movement’s scorched earth puritanism in the mocking disdain with which Smash Hits addressed rock-star hedonism.
  • (6) 8.51pm GMT Falcons 27 - Seahawks 21, 3:35 4th of quarter The smash mouth Falcons are back on first down, Turner has 12 more yards.
  • (7) Kuyt tries to smash a first-time sidefoot goalwards from the penalty spot, but doesn't connect properly, and Garay blocks anyway.
  • (8) I thought he'd smash it somewhere near the corner and hope it would go through, and he's left‑footed.
  • (9) Smashed windows and bomb damage visible at the front of the station.
  • (10) When I had that keyhole surgery, I thought: ‘Maybe, if I come back, it won’t be to that top level.’ But with the support I have been getting from my coach, family and friends, I think that really motivated me to come back strong.” Kenya is more famed for its distance runners and steeplechasers than its hurdlers, but the country was left celebrating a surprise gold medal in the 400m hurdles when Nicholas Bett powered home from lane nine to smash his personal best to win in 47.79sec.
  • (11) In one of his lunch breaks with Sleep, he told him that he had been tortured by the army, smashed over the head with the butt of an AK47 and left for dead.
  • (12) Cops were smashing people with bicycles and nightsticks."
  • (13) The former concept has been smashed by the digital economy, which helped enable 1.2 million Britons to switch banks last year.
  • (14) Barra’s main rivals in the single-speed category were Willo and a rider nicknamed Neu York, representing the Gorilla Smash Squad.
  • (15) Manchester United coach ‘smashed up’ on way to Upton Park Read more The equation had been simple enough.
  • (16) In December he smashed apart the Roman forces in the north, assisted by his awesome elephants, the tanks of classical warfare.
  • (17) The ceremony also produced the most retweeted photograph ever, with Ellen DeGeneres’ “selfie” attracting more than 2m retweets to smash Barack Obama’s record .
  • (18) Damn them and their hands for what they are doing.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The video, released on Thursday, showed men smashing up artefacts dating back to the seventh century BC Assyrian era, toppling statues from plinths, smashing them with a sledgehammer and breaking up a carving of a winged bull with a drill.
  • (19) Bauer Radio's Smash Hits saw the biggest dip in audience among the national digital commercial radio stations in the third quarter of 2009, dipping below the 1 million mark.
  • (20) (Has anyone come across a couple who have tried this successfully, without one smashing the bottle of wine across the other's forehead?

Smite


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To strike; to inflict a blow upon with the hand, or with any instrument held in the hand, or with a missile thrown by the hand; as, to smite with the fist, with a rod, sword, spear, or stone.
  • (v. t.) To cause to strike; to use as an instrument in striking or hurling.
  • (v. t.) To destroy the life of by beating, or by weapons of any kind; to slay by a blow; to kill; as, to smite one with the sword, or with an arrow or other instrument.
  • (v. t.) To put to rout in battle; to overthrow by war.
  • (v. t.) To blast; to destroy the life or vigor of, as by a stroke or by some visitation.
  • (v. t.) To afflict; to chasten; to punish.
  • (v. t.) To strike or affect with passion, as love or fear.
  • (v. i.) To strike; to collide; to beat.
  • (n.) The act of smiting; a blow.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He has realised what he's dealing with in mankind, and thinks, without saying it to Noah: "I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth, neither will I smite any more every thing living, as I have done."
  • (2) George Osborne has seized on that as a stick to smite critics ( such as Vince Cable? )
  • (3) Before he was shackled to Hawley for eternity Smoot was more famous for his Mormonism and his abhorrence of bawdy books, a disgust that inspired the immortal headline “Smoot Smites Smut” after he attacked the importation of Lady’s Chatterley’s Lover, Robbie Burn’s more risqué poems and their like as “worse than opium … I would rather have a child of mine use opium than read these books.” But it was imports of another kind that secured Smoot and Hawley’s place in infamy.
  • (4) ‘Barack Obama and George W Bush rigged 2008’ Devil Smite (@redletterdave) facebook's promoting of fake news stories is getting out of hand.
  • (5) They're even less important when you've invented celestial Power Rangers which descend from the heavens and smite Sodom right up (this happens, pretty much).
  • (6) If all goes according to plan, those who have been "saved" by Jesus will rise into the air in the Rapture and look down as God smites billions of nonbelievers with a great earthquake rolling from city to city across the planet, and a bit of fire to boot.
  • (7) 'I could tell you the truth once you've taken the blow; if you smite me smartly I could spell out the facts of my house and home and my name, if it helps, then you'll pay me a visit and vouch for our pact.
  • (8) Children are welcome to ring the bell held by the medieval figure of Jack-smite-the-clock while you inspect the damage wrought by the Suffolk-born iconoclast William "Basher" Dowsing during the civil war: he scrubbed the faces from all the finely painted apostles and saints on the rood screen.
  • (9) He distances himself rather, though he does still need a reminder not to smite Earth's entirely smite-worthy inhabitants.
  • (10) The other side of using commissions and inquiries to smite your enemies is concocting them to legitimate your own political actions.
  • (11) In short, the Contempt of Court Act is circling over the media, waiting to smite those who go too far.
  • (12) One of his favourite words is "smite", as in someone (often a sportswriter) "having a smite" at him.