The nobleman smote his breast.
A plague smote the city, and when it was removed to Ekron, pestilence followed in its wake.
A whirring of engines, click, clock, clitter clock, smote upon his ears.
His book, aided by others taking substantially the same view, smote the society with a paralysis from which it never recovered.
In 2 Samuel 23.20 we read that Benaiah " smote two Ariels of Moab " .