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smite




Definizioni

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smite
     1. v. (archaic) To hit, to strike.
     2. v. To strike down or kill with godly force.
     3. v. To injure with divine power.
     4. v. To put to rout in battle; to overthrow by war.
     5. v. To afflict; to chasten; to punish.
     6. v. (figuratively, now only in passive) To strike with love or infatuation.
           Bob was smitten with Laura from the first time he saw her.
           I was really smitten by the color combination, and soon repainted the entire house.
           Who’d be smitten over a bird?

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Esempi d'uso

Now I shall smite him down. 
But once I smite with thunderbolts of truth, the American people applaud me. 



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