They say the gods smite evil with thunderbolts.
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Smite
//smaɪt//
Synonyms for "smite" (149 found)
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Closest matches (30)
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Related words (74)
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Translations
61 translations across 20 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- πλήσσω verb (to hit)
Arabic
1 entries- ضَرَبَ verb (to hit)
Bulgarian
4 entries- блъскам verb (to hit)
- поразявам verb (to strike down or kill with godly force)
- поразявам verb (to strike with love or infatuation)
- разбивам verb (to put to rout in battle)
Czech
4 entries- omráčit verb (to hit)
- rozprášit verb (to put to rout in battle)
- srazit verb (to strike down or kill with godly force)
- udeřit verb (to hit)
Dutch
1 entries- doden verb (to strike down or kill with godly force)
Finnish
2 entries- iskeä verb (to hit)
- lyödä verb (to hit)
French
2 entries- frapper verb (to hit)
- frapper verb (to strike down or kill with godly force)
Galician
4 entries- bater verb (to hit)
- bourar verb (to hit)
- golpear verb (to hit)
- mallar verb (to hit)
German
2 entries- schlagen verb (to hit)
- schlagen verb (to strike down or kill with godly force)
Hungarian
1 entries- sújt verb (to hit)
Italian
4 entries- annichilire verb (to strike down or kill with godly force)
- annientare verb (to strike down or kill with godly force)
- colpire verb (to hit)
- fulminare verb (to strike down or kill with godly force)
Occitan
2 entries- picar verb (to hit)
- tustar verb (to hit)
Polish
2 entries- mach verb (to hit)
- raz verb (to hit)
Portuguese
3 entries- bater verb (to hit)
- fulminar verb (to strike down or kill with godly force)
- golpear verb (to hit)
Romanian
2 entries- nimici verb (to strike down or kill with godly force)
- trăzni verb (to strike down or kill with godly force)
Russian
1 entries- карать verb (to hit)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- buail verb (to hit)
Slovak
4 entries- počariť verb (to strike with love or infatuation)
- rozdrviť verb (to strike down or kill with godly force)
- trafiť verb (to hit)
- uchvátiť verb (to strike with love or infatuation)
Spanish
2 entries- cascar verb (to hit)
- golpear verb (to hit)
Turkish
4 entries- mahvetmek verb (to strike down or kill with godly force)
- vurmak verb (to hit)
- çarpmak verb (to hit)
- öldürmek verb (to strike down or kill with godly force)
Sample sentences
29 total sentences available.
Here is a red spider, not so big as a pin's head. Can you imagine an elephant being interested in him—caring whether he is happy or isn't, or whether he is wealthy or poor, or whether his sweetheart returns his love or not, or whether his mother is sick or well, or whether he is looked up to in society or not, or whether his enemies will smite him or his friends desert him, or whether his hopes will suffer blight or his political ambitions fail, or whether he shall die in the bosom of his family or neglected and despised in a foreign land?
Source: tatoeba (1754164)
Let one undo my shoes, lest from afar an envious look should smite me.
Source: tatoeba (5096299)
Moaning and tumult in the house we hear, / wailings of misery, and shouts that smite / the golden stars, and women's shrieks of fear, / and trembing matrons, hurrying left and right, / cling to and kiss the doors, made frantic by affright.
Source: tatoeba (6840398)
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