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Another word for smite

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smite

v.

strike, beat, belabor; see hit 1.

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Another word for smite

verb

To deliver a powerful blow to suddenly and sharply:
bash, catch, clout, hit, knock, pop¹, slam, slog, slug³, smash, sock, strike, swat, thwack, whack, wham, whop. (Informal) biff, bop, clip¹, wallop. (Slang) belt, conk, paste. Idioms: let someone have it, sock it to someone. See attack, strike
To bring great harm or suffering to:
afflict, agonize, anguish, curse, excruciate, plague, rack, scourge, strike, torment, torture. See attack, help

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This all took place at Valarshapat, where Gregory, anxious to fix a site on which to build shrines for the relics of Ripsime and Gaiana, saw the Son of God come down in a sheen of light, the stars of heaven attending, and smite the earth with a golden hammer till the nether world resounded to his blows.
If a bird attempts to fly in a calm, the wings must be made to smite the air after the manner of.
In battle he was wont to bid his followers spare the commons in the pursuit, and to smite only the knights and nobles.
Meanwhile Germany was suffering severely from internal disorders and from the inroads of her rude neighbors; and when in the year Iooo Otto visited his northerfl kingdom there were hopes that he would smite these enemies with the vigour of his predecessors.
It should smite the air intelligently and as a master, and its vigorous well-directed thrusts should in every instance elicit an upward and forward recoil.

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