smite

Meaning

Verb

1. 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. To strike with love or infatuation.

Noun

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

Concepts

smite

strike

hit

beat

knock

afflict

slap

kill

bang

plague

smack

punch

buffet

thrash

clobber

bash

affect

rap

cuff

destroy

punish

whip

clout

swat

strike down

belt

drive

slog

whack

whop

hit against

throw

conquer

bedevil

blight

curse

rack

torment

clutch

paw

pelt

scourge

sock

thump

injure

wound

chastise

stroke

particle

butt

belabour

cane

flog

trounce

circumvent

confound

smear

bump

clack

cudgel

impinge

larrup

maul

shroud

slat

chime

clank

clap

clink

clip

hurt

jangle

slosh

attack

box

catch

chop

get hold of

jab

knap

pick up

pull

strike hard

visit

whang

bat

beat out

carom

defeat

mint

nail

play

racket

ram

shoot

stamp out

swing

thump out

top

worst

ail

beset

bother

discommode

eat on

gall

get

hassle

infest

inflict

knead

molest

nag

niggle

trouble

vex

weigh

slam

biff

bonk

boom

bop

plunk

pommel

pummel

smash

strike out

swig

swipe

wham

whap

whomp

Pronounced as (IPA)

/smaɪt/

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”), Low German smieten (“to throw, chuck, toss”), Dutch smijten (“to fling, hurl, throw”), Middle Low German besmitten (“to soil, sully”), German schmeißen (“to fling, throw”), Danish smide (“to throw”), Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐍃𐌼𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (bismeitan, “to besmear, anoint”).