• enPR: smīt, IPA: /smaɪt/

smite (smites, present participle smiting; past smote, past participle smitten)

1. (archaic) To hit#Verb|hit, to strike#Verb|strike.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Matthew 5:39 ↗:

     Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

   • 1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., OCLC 580270828 ↗, page 01 ↗:

     It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. […]. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts.

2. To strike down or kill#Verb|kill with godly force#Noun|force.
   • 1611, King James Version, Exodus 3:19–20:

     And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand. And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go.

3. To injure with divine power.
4. To put to rout in battle; to overthrow by war.
5. To afflict; to chasten; to punish.

   • Let us not mistake God's goodness, nor imagine, because he smites us, that we are forsaken by him.

6. (figuratively, now only in passive) To strike with love or infatuation.

   Bob was smitten with Laura from the first time he saw her.

   I was really smitten by the color combination, and soon repainted the entire house.

   Who’d be smitten over a bird?

• French: frapper
• German: schlagen
• Italian: colpire
• Portuguese: golpear, bater
• Russian: карать
• Spanish: golpear, cascar

• French: frapper
• German: schlagen
• Italian: fulminare, annientare, annichilire
• Portuguese: fulminar

• Italian: impressionare