smite

Signification (Anglais)

Verb

1. (archaic) To hit; to strike.
2. To strike down or kill with godly force.
3. To injure with divine power.
4. To kill violently; to slay.
5. To put to rout in battle; to overthrow by war.
6. To afflict; to chasten; to punish.
7. (figuratively) To strike with love or infatuation.

Noun

A heavy strike with a weapon, tool, or the hand.

Concepts

frapper

atteindre

battre

estampiller

toucher

vaincre

Synonymes

strike

hit

beat

knock

slap

afflict

bang

kill

🔪🩸👤

clobber

thrash

bash

buffet

smack

plague

punch

👊

affect

rap

belt

strike down

destroy

hit against

whack

whip

cuff

swat

throw

drive

slog

clout

punish

whop

clack

circumvent

blight

chop

chime

biff

chastise

catch

carom

flog

cane

beset

bat

🦇

discommode

butt

defeat

gall

get

bump

Traductions

colpire

schlagen

golpear

çarpmak

golpear con violencia

rahatsız etmek

χτυπώ

vergaffen

slaan

percuotere

αιφνιδιάζω

peitschen

κατατροπώνω

κτυπώ

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/smaɪt/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: smiten

Hérité de ancien anglais: smītan

Appartenant à saterlandais: smiete

Appartenant à frison occidental: smite

Appartenant à bas-allemand: smieten

Appartenant à néerlandais: smijten

Appartenant à Middle Low German: besmitten

Appartenant à allemand: schmeißen

Appartenant à danois: smide

Appartenant à gotique: 𐌱𐌹𐍃𐌼𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽

In summary

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”).