What does smote mean?
Smote means simple past of smite.
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/sməʊt/ · verb
simple past of smite.
Hounds whimpered and marked at the stick-pile. Their many tongues smote all other sounds from Tarka’s ears.
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.”
Use smote when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Smote means simple past of smite.
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Hounds whimpered and marked at the stick-pile. Their many tongues smote all other sounds from Tarka’s ears.
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