smite

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If every weapon were taken from their hands and all their young men were dead, with naked fists those who were left would smite--smite and smite.

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  1. transitive verb To inflict a heavy blow on, with or as if with the hand, a tool, or a weapon.
  2. transitive verb To drive or strike (a weapon, for example) forcefully onto or into something else.
  3. transitive verb To attack, damage, or destroy by or as if by blows.

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  • Instead she lifted her head to the beauty that the Enemy could not smite, and drank it in. —  Rachel Lee - Shadows of Destiny
  • You see, jesus was a poor gay jew, but his dad was a smiting jealous white male, who murdered whole cities of gays in a single salt-transmorphication smite, and who murdered entire armies of brown skinned Egyptians by drowning, or pesilence, or some other godly smiting technique. —  Propeller Most Popular Stories
  • You see, jesus was a poor gay LIBERAL jew, but his dad was a smiting jealous white male, who murdered whole cities of gays in a single salt-transmorphication smite, and who murdered entire armies of brown skinned Egyptians by drowning, or pesilence, or some other godly smiting technique. —  Propeller Most Popular Stories
  • His movements were so swift that they knew not where to smite, and both Gradasso and Roger were covered with wounds and bruises, while their enemy had never once been touched Their strength as well as their courage began to fail in the stress of this strange warfare. —  The Red Romance Book
  • We used to think you a slogger, but you never came anywhere near that smite of Scaife's I thought his smite was coming too near me," says the Rev. Sep, with a shrewd glance at the pavilion. —  The Hill A Romance of Friendship
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English smiten, from Old English smītan, to smear.

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  1. from Middle English smiten, smyten (preterit smot, smat, also smette, smatte, past participle smiten, smyten, smeten), from Anglo-Saxon smītan (preterit smāt, past participle smiten) = OFries. smīta; = Dutch smijten = MLG, smīten, Low German smiten = Old High German smīzan, throw, stroke, smear, Middle High German smīzen, German schmeissen, smite, fling, cast, = Old Swedish smita = Danish smide, fling, = Gothic (Moesogothic) *smeitan (in comp.); orig. ‘smear’ or ‘rub over,’ as in Anglo-Saxon besmītan = Gothic (Moesogothic) bi-smeitan (also gasmeitan), smear; cf. Icelandic smita, steam from being fat; Swedish smeta, smear, smet, grease; Sanskrit medas, fat, from √ med or mid, be fat. Hence smit. Cf. swear.
  2. from smite, v. Cf. smit.
 

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