Definitions for smote

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Spelling: [smoht]

IPA: /smoʊt/

Smote is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in smote (emost).

Definitions for smote

verb

1. a simple past tense of smite.

Idioms

1. smite hip and thigh. hip1 (def 9).

verb (used with object)

1. to strike or hit hard, with or as with the hand, a stick, or other weapon:
2. to deliver or deal (a blow, hit, etc.) by striking hard.
3. to strike down, injure, or slay:
4. to afflict or attack with deadly or disastrous effect:
5. to affect mentally or morally with a sudden pang:
6. to affect suddenly and strongly with a specified feeling:
7. to impress favorably; charm; enamor:

verb (used without object)

1. to strike; deal a blow.

Origin of smote

before 900; Middle English smiten, Old English smītan; cognate with German schmeissen to throw, Dutch smijten

Examples for smote

He smote his palm with his clenched fist and strode about the little room.

If it had a new meaning that smote him to the heart, the change was in his perception, not in her.

Then, he smote his thigh with a blow strong enough to kill an ox.

The homely beauty of it smote upon him, though it could not cheer.

smote them and strewed them to earth like leaves in the breath of the whirlwind.

It smote upon his heart to feel that she hid her thin, worn shoe.

Then Robin grew mad with anger and smote with all his might at the other.

He smote his hand against his thigh, while Kenyon looked at him in wonder.

I was sure the owner committed the cardinal sin of improperly storing his wine, and I smote him with all the fervor of a zealot.

But when the Sheriff heard this he smote his forehead with his fist.