smite
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Is smite a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (archaic) To hit; to strike.Examples: "Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also."; "That elf-maiden smote with her hand so white, “Sorrow and sickness on thee alight” That elf-maiden smote with her cap so small, “No more shall priest's benison on thee fall!”"; "A harp can give out but a certain quantity of sound, however heavily it is smitten."archaic
2. (figuratively, now only in passive) To strike with love or infatuation.Examples: "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."; "See what the charms that smite the simple heart, // Not touch'd by Nature, and not reach'd by art."figuratively
noun (English)
1. (archaic, rare) A heavy strike with a weapon, tool, or the hand.Examples: "On the other hand , your soft-headed, softhearted sentimentalist, whose heart is in his waistcoat pocket, always at hand for use, he who picks out the pretty parts of modern novels, and the tender parts of affecting tales, never hears of two young people meeting one another, but he begins to think that a smite must follow."; "‘That is just what I was about to venture to propose,’returned the doctor with a smite. But the words were hardly uttered, before the smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of such abject terror and despair, as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below."; "Beale, who had not been driving very well, took a smite at his ball and sent it curving far away to the left into a mess of gorse of bramble bushes."archaicrare
Definition source: Wiktionary