Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Preterit of smite.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • imp. (and rare p. p.) of smite.

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  • verb Simple past of smite.

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  • "With a blast of its siren the huge electric locomotive burst out of the shed and thundered around the track. It smote Ned Newton's mind suddenly that the inventor was going to 'take a chance' on this evening and try to get some speed out of the huge machine."

    - Victor Appleton, 'Tom Swift And His Electric Locomotive'.

    August 28, 2009