smite

== English == === Alternative forms === smight (obsolete) === Etymology === From Middle English smiten, from Old English smītan (“to daub, smear, smudge; soil, defile, pollute”), from Proto-West Germanic *smītan, from Proto-Germanic *smītaną (“to sling; throw; smear”), from Proto-Indo-European *smeyd- (“to smear, whisk, strike, rub”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian smiete (“to throw, toss”), West Frisian smite (“to throw”), Dutch smijten (“to fling, hurl, throw”), German Low German smieten (“to throw, chuck, toss”), German schmeißen (“to fling, throw”), Danish smide (“to throw”), Swedish smita (“to run off (to)”), Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐍃𐌼𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (bismeitan, “to besmear, anoint”). === Pronunciation === enPR: smīt, IPA(key): /smaɪt/ Rhymes: -aɪt === Verb === smite (third-person singular simple present smites, present participle smiting, simple past smote or smited or (obsolete) smit, past participle smitten or smote or smited or (obsolete) smit) (archaic) To hit; to strike. To strike down or kill with godly force. To injure with divine power. To kill violently; to slay. To put to rout in battle; to overthrow by war. To afflict; to chasten; to punish. (figuratively, now only in passive) To strike with love or infatuation. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Noun === smite (plural smites) (archaic, rare) A heavy strike with a weapon, tool, or the hand. === Anagrams === EMT-Is, Metis, stime, Times, times, metis, setim, MSTie, items, Métis, mites, et sim., e-stim, emits, i-stem, métis, STEMI, METIs == North Frisian == === Alternative forms === smitj (Föhr-Amrum) smit (Sylt) === Etymology === From Proto-Germanic *smītaną. === Pronunciation === (Mooring) IPA(key): [ˈsmɪtʰə] === Verb === smite (Mooring) to throw ==== Conjugation ==== == Old English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈsmiː.te/, /ˈsmi.te/ Rhymes: -iː.te, -i.te === Verb === smīte inflection of smītan: first-person singular present indicative singular present subjunctive === Verb === smite inflection of smītan: second-person singular preterite indicative singular preterite subjunctive == West Frisian == === Etymology === From Old Frisian smīta, from Proto-West Germanic *smītan, from Proto-Indo-European *smeyd-. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈsmitə/ === Verb === smite to throw to fling ==== Inflection ==== ==== Further reading ==== “smite (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011 “smite”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.