"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."
Source: tatoeba (7051113)
Smote
//sməʊt//
Synonyms for "smote" (149 found)
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And the hail destroyed through all the land of Egypt all things that were in the fields, both man and beast: and the hail smote every herb of the field, and it broke every tree of the country.
Source: tatoeba (7994627)
No turbaned Turk, no hired Venetian or Malay, could have smote him with more seeming malice.
Source: tatoeba (8056111)
They took the reed and smote him on the head.
Source: tatoeba (10723425)
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