Smote

//sməʊt// verb, slang

verb, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past of smite form-of, past

    "Hounds whimpered and marked at the stick-pile. Their many tongues smote all other sounds from Tarka’s ears."

  2. 2
    past participle of smite colloquial, form-of, nonstandard, participle, past

    "As thy eye beames, when their freſh rayſe haue ſmot."

  3. 3
    simple past of smight form-of, past

Synonyms

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affectafflictafflictagonizeassassinateassault

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""But mad with love's despair, / and stung with Furies for his spouse denied, / at length Orestes caught the wretch unware, / e'en by his father's shrine, and smote him then and there.""

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