(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.
Smith
Definition:
(n.) One who forges with the hammer; one who works in metals; as, a blacksmith, goldsmith, silversmith, and the like.
(n.) One who makes or effects anything.
(n.) To beat into shape; to forge.
Example Sentences:
(1) Also critical to Mr Smith's victory was the decision over lunch of the MSF technical union's delegation to abstain on the rule changes.
(2) Both Ken Whisenhunt and Lovie Smith were fired as head coaches after the 2012 season.
(3) Leading clinical candidates have emerged from Smith Kline and French, Lilly, Merck-Frosst, ICI-Stuart and other groups.
(4) If this is what 70s stoners were laughing at, it feels like they’ve already become acquiescent, passive parts of media-relayed consumer society; precursors of the cathode-ray-frazzled pop-culture exegetists of Tarantino and Kevin Smith in the 90s.
(5) After all, he reminds us, the Smiths can take no credit for the place, having only been born and brought up there, not responsible for its size and stature.
(6) In his interview, Smith accepts that the EA's response to the flooding has not been perfect.
(7) Smith manages to get a suspended possession order, postponing eviction, provided Evans (who has a new job) pays her rent on time and pays back her arrears at a rate of £5 a week.
(8) The women's images of health were consistent with Smith's and Laffrey's four conceptions, but the eudaemonistic category included multiple dimensions.
(9) Air-regenerated monomers of bovine seminal ribonuclease have been found capable of reassociating into native dimers, whereas monomers refolded in the presence of a glutathione redox mixture do not reassociate into dimers [Smith, K. G., D'Alessio, G. and Schaffer, S. W. (1978) Biochemistry 17, 2633-2638].
(10) At a private meeting last Tuesday, Hunt assured Cameron and the cabinet secretary, Sir Jeremy Heywood, that he had not been aware that his special adviser, Adam Smith, was systematically leaking information and advice to News Corp about its bid for BSkyB.
(11) Norwich Ownership Delia Smith and her husband Michael Wynn Jones own 53.1% of the club’s shares; deputy chairman Michael Foulger owns approximately 16% Gate receipts £12m Broadcasting and media £70m Catering £4m Commercial & other income £12m Net debt Not stated; £2.7m bank overdraft, no directors’ loans.
(12) The fact that we’re tracking towards the hottest year on record should send chills through anyone who says they care about climate change – especially negotiators at the UN climate talks here in Lima,” said Samantha Smith, who heads WWF’s climate and energy initiative.
(13) If he was a cartoon character, he’d be … On looks alone, American Dad’s Stan Smith .
(14) In fact, less flashy politicians such as Jacqui Smith and Hazel Blears were the ones who made it to the top.
(15) I think it would have been appropriate and right and respectful of people’s feelings to have done so.” There was also confusion over Labour policy sparked by conflicting comments made by Corbyn and his new shadow work and pensions secretary, Owen Smith.
(16) At Wembley England fielded: Springett; Armfield, McNeil; Robson, Swan, Flowers; Douglas, Greaves, Smith, Haynes, Charlton.
(17) After a hiatus, Smith is back with a flourish for her genre-bending new novel How to be Both , and David Mitchell has been longlisted for a third time, for The Bone Clocks .
(18) The treatment of a Smith type-II fracture is a volar buttress plate unless extended comminution is present.
(19) Iain Duncan-Smith, the new welfare secretary, said it was if the two parties had been working together for years.
(20) However, given the upsurge in demand Comag is working with wholesalers Smith News and Menzies Distribution to get more copies into shops.