smite
Plural: smites
Verb
Verb Forms: smote, smit, smitten, smiting, smites
- To strike heavily or to afflict with a heavy blow.
- inflict a heavy blow on, with the hand, a tool, or a weapon
- affect suddenly with deep feeling
- cause physical pain or suffering in
- To hit; to strike.
- To strike down or kill with godly force.
- To injure with divine power.
- To kill violently; to slay.
- To put to rout in battle; to overthrow by war.
- To afflict; to chasten; to punish.
- To strike with love or infatuation.
Noun
- A heavy strike with a weapon, tool, or the hand.
Examples
- Bob was smitten with Laura from the first time he saw her.
- I wanted to SMITE my opponent with a triple-triple word score, but the letters just weren’t there.
- I was really smitten by the color combination, and soon repainted the entire house.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English smiten, from Old English smītan (“to daub, smear, smudge; soil, defile, pollute”), from Proto-West Germanic *smītan, from Proto-Germanic *smītaną (“to sling; throw; smear”), from Proto-Indo-European *smeyd- (“to smear, whisk, strike, rub”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian smiete (“to throw, toss”), West Frisian smite (“to throw”), Low German smieten (“to throw, chuck, toss”), Dutch smijten (“to fling, hurl, throw”), Middle Low German besmitten (“to soil, sully”), German schmeißen (“to fling, throw”), Danish smide (“to throw”), Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐍃𐌼𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (bismeitan, “to besmear, anoint”).
Synonyms
Scrabble Score: 7
smite: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordsmite: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
smite: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary