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==English==

====Verb====
{{en-verb|smites|smiting|'''[[smote]]''' ''or obsolete'' '''[[smit]]'''|smitten}}

# {{archaic}} To [[hit]].
#* '''1918''', {{w|Edgar Rice Burroughs}}, [[w:The Land That Time Forgot (novel)|The Land That Time Forgot]] Chapter IV
#*: "Right you are!" I cried. "We must believe the other until we prove it false. We can't afford to give up heart now, when we need heart most. The branch was carried down by a river, and we are going to find that river." I '''smote''' my open palm with a clenched fist, to emphasize a determination unsupported by hope.
# To strike down or kill with godly force.
# To injure with divine power.

===Thesaurus===
[[affect]], [[agonize]], [[bang]], [[bash]], [[baste]], [[bastinado]], [[bat]], [[beat]], [[belabor]], [[belt]], [[biff]], [[birch]], [[bonk]], [[buffet]], [[cane]], [[catch]], [[clap]], [[clip]], [[clobber]], [[clout]], [[club]], [[clump]], [[coldcock]], [[come home to]], [[cowhide]], [[crack]], [[crucify]], [[cudgel]], [[cut]], [[dash]], [[deal]], [[deal a blow]], [[deck]], [[ding]], [[drub]], [[excruciate]], [[fetch]], [[fetch a blow]], [[flagellate]], [[flail]], [[flog]], [[fustigate]], [[give a whipping]], [[give the stick]], [[harrow]], [[hit]], [[hit a clip]], [[hit the mark]], [[horsewhip]], [[impress]], [[impress forcibly]], [[jab]], [[knock]], [[knock cold]], [[knock down]], [[knock out]], [[knout]], [[lace]], [[lash]], [[lay on]], [[let have it]], [[make an impression]], [[martyr]], [[paste]], [[pistol-whip]], [[plunk]], [[poke]], [[pommel]], [[pummel]], [[punch]], [[rawhide]], [[rock]], [[scourge]], [[sink in]], [[slam]], [[slog]], [[slosh]], [[slug]], [[smack]], [[snap]], [[soak]], [[sock]], [[spank]], [[strap]], [[strike]], [[strike at]], [[strike hard]], [[strike home]], [[stripe]], [[swat]], [[swinge]], [[swipe]], [[switch]], [[tell]], [[thrash]], [[thump]], [[thwack]], [[torment]], [[torture]], [[traumatize]], [[trounce]], [[truncheon]], [[try]], [[wallop]], [[whack]], [[whale]], [[wham]], [[whip]], [[whop]], [[yerk]]

===Pronunciation===
* {{enPR|smīt}}, {{IPA|/smaɪt/}}, {{SAMPA|/smaIt/}}
*: {{rhymes|aɪt}}

===Etymology===
{{etyl|ang}} ''[[smitan|smītan]]'', cognates include German {{term|schmeißen}}, Danish {{term|smide|lang=da}} and Gothic {{term|𐌱𐌹𐍃𐌼𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽|sc=Goth|tr=bismeitan}}.

==Translations==
{{trans-top|to hit}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|iskeä}}, {{t+|fi|lyödä}}
* [[Galician]]: {{t|gl|bater}}, {{t|gl|bourar}}, {{t|gl|golpear}}, {{t|gl|mallar}}, {{t|gl|pegar}}, {{t|gl|percutir}}, {{t|gl|petar}}, {{t|gl|sacudir}}, {{t|gl|zoscar}}
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* Hungarian: {{t|hu|sújt}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|colpire}}
* [[Scottish Gaelic]]: {{t|gd|buail}}
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===Anagrams===
* [[emits#English|emits]], [[i-stem#English|i-stem]], [[items#English|items]], [[Metis#English|Metis]], [[Métis#English|Métis]], [[mites#English|mites]], [[Times#English|Times]], [[times#English|times]]

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==Old Frisian==

====Verb====
{{infl|ofs|verb}}

# To '''[[throw]]

====Conjugation====
{{fy-conj|smyt|smytst|smyt|smite|smiet|smietest|smiet|smieten|smitende|smyt|hawwe|smiten}}

[[Category:Old Frisian verbs]]