smite

“Curtis and I served together in the state Senate, he is your state senator. He is Republican. I am a Democrat. But when we team up in a bipartisan manner, we will smite evil.”

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 25, 2024

On it, we hear a 31-year-old woman impersonating her 19-year-old self reflecting on her 15-year-old self, and doing it all to smite the men who hoped to seize control of her songs.

From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2021

Will he lose his head, or is the Green Knight’s bark worse than his smite?

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2021

A misconception exists that vaccines transform us into totally immune beings, able to instantaneously smite any virus we encounter.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 21, 2021

It is entirely possible that this dishonored past will rise up soon to smite all of us.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin

Indecent exposure … Fantasy author Terry Goodkind has publicly castigated a pirate of his ebook Wizard hero Richard Rahl smites wrongdoers with his Sword of Truth.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 11, 2012

"He plays silly shots to get out and bowls lots of pies but inbetween times he smites big sixes and bowls unplayable deliveries."

From The Guardian ● Jan. 12, 2011

Pareja nods away a long high ball, but it drops out to the onrushing Russian, who smites the thing first time, dipping and fizzing past Dykan in the Spartak goal.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 19, 2010

What is this strange, perplexing passion that smites the child of nature?

From Time Magazine Archive

Again, he asserts, that to him who smites us on one cheek we should likewise turn the other**.

From Arguments Of Celsus, Porphyry, And The Emperor Julian, Against The Christians Also Extracts from Diodorus Siculus, Josephus, and Tacitus, Relating to the Jews, Together with an Appendix by Thomas Taylor

The woods that deck yon' fading waste, That every wanton gale embrac'd, Ere summer yet made haste to fly; How smit with frost the pride of June!

From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) by Philip Freneau

If e’er Detraction shore to smit you, May nane believe him!

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns

Many who belonged not to the orders, smit with desire for the glory of martyrdom, cast the mantles of Templars around them, and went cheerfully to death as such.

From Secret Societies of the Middle Ages by Thomas Keightley

Iris answered: "Go thou to the trench, and show thyself To them of Troy, that, haply smit with fear, They may desist from battle."

From The Story of Troy by Michael Clarke

Smit, smit, obsolete pa.t. and pa.p. of smite.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

I’ve never touched a gun nor smote anything larger than a stink bug.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025

So went Robert Downey Jr. from the presence of Jimmy Fallon and smote the entire internet with an unwatchable video.

From Slate ● Apr. 26, 2018

Johnson, the Hall of Famer, famously smote a bird in flight with a spring training pitch in 2001.

From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2017

In which arena rock was smote upside the backside by the punk movement.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2016

In the hushed hall it smote the suitors and all their faces changed.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

However, BBC Sport understands Arteta has become so smitten with the notion of signing Vinicius that he is viewed internally as the club's number one target.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

But he quickly was smitten with the game and the tournament — so much so he has attended every World Cup since 1990.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Trump is so smitten with his Florsheim dress shoes that he shod his whole Cabinet in the same footwear.

From Slate ● Mar. 14, 2026

Pep Guardiola is so smitten by Rayan Cherki that the Manchester City boss said he wanted to kiss the "incredible" French star after his virtuoso performance in Saturday's 2-1 win at Nottingham Forest.

From Barron's ● Dec. 27, 2025

Like many people who encountered Blake in the weeks and months after his return from Korea, Allan found herself smitten by the young war hero.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

Mr. Harbour shines as the jolly, but surprisingly in shape, fat man smiting foes with a Christmas star, icicles and even a lethal candy cane.

From Washington Times ● Feb. 3, 2023

“Even in Akhenaten’s time, so much of her iconography was that of a male king, smiting enemies and doing things like that.”

From Scientific American ● Nov. 4, 2022

Sure they’re great for smiting your enemies, but I bet they’re also perfect for quickly taking you to a tropical getaway.

From The Verge ● Jun. 28, 2016

“For example, on certain relief blocks from Luxor and Karnak temples she’s shown smiting Egypt’s enemies, a position which is usually reserved for the king alone.”

From National Geographic ● Nov. 28, 2015

But he’d also expected Ashmodai to smite him on the spot, whatever smiting entailed, once he realized what Boaz had done.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny