Meaning & use
Smote
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Struck or hit someone or something hard, especially as a punishing or violent blow (the past tense of "smite").
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In the old story, lightning smote the great oak tree, splitting it in two.
The general recalled how his army had smote the enemy's forces at dawn.
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"Smote" is the archaic past tense of "smite," a verb now mostly confined to biblical, poetic, or deliberately old-fashioned writing.
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