smite
A heavy strike with a weapon, tool, or the handA heavy strike with a weapon, tool, or the hand.
Recorded UK: Speaker: Vealhurl Recorder: Vealhurl, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Meaning
1 senses(archaic, rare)A heavy strike with a weapon, tool, or the hand.
Origin
From Middle English smiten, from Old English smītan (“to daub, smear, smudge; soil, defileFrom 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”).
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