smote

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
7
Words With Friends
8
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/sməʊt/
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/sməʊt/ · /smoʊt/

Definition of smote

3 senses · 1 part of speech

verb

  1. (form-of, past)simple past of smite
    “Hounds whimpered and marked at the stick-pile. Their many tongues smote all other sounds from Tarka’s ears.”
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verb

  1. (form-of, past)simple past of smite
    “Hounds whimpered and marked at the stick-pile. Their many tongues smote all other sounds from Tarka’s ears.”
  2. (colloquial, form-of, nonstandard, participle, past)past participle of smite
    “As thy eye beames, when their freſh rayſe haue ſmot.”
    “"We should have smote him," continued the ex-president of the Directory, still fretful from his misfortune;[…]”
    “The world 'as got me snouted jist a treat; Crool Forchin's dirty left 'as smote me soul.”
    “So that's the story- God did not smote us for that story. We finished the whole thing. Penn Jillette in Las Vegas with Michale Goudeau- we'll be back, we'll take some phone calls. God hath not smote my ass!”
    “"God has use for Satan, or He would have smote him centuries ago. In any case, Captain Dan is nothing without Barbary. He will shrivel and drift before the first clean draught that blows unhampered across the ruins.””
  3. (form-of, past)simple past of smight

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