to smite

Examples

• All

• At the end of the Tribulation, the Lord will return and smite their enemies; then He will rule as our King.

  Blog text (10)

• I will smite him where he stands.

  Shrek 2 (2004)

• Touch one stone... and God will smite you.

  The Last Valley (1971)

• I put it to you, how do we smite this enemy of the Lord?

  Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964)

• Pharaoh sent his army to smite Israel.

  Pharaoh's Army (1995)

• Yea, I will smite Israel for its sin against me.

  David and Bathsheba (1951)

• I will smite the Shepherd and the sheep of his flock will be scattered abroad.

  Fear No Evil (1981)

• That is the tokens of God's anger, the anger that led him to smite his people with the plague.

• May He lift up His hand and smite that of the oppressor, and may our true patriots in gray withstand their test with bravery.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Yea, I will smite Israel for its sin against me.

Synonyms

I

to inflict

vsto smite

245 6.2

Make someone feel pain or suffer harm

is more about a heavy blow or supernatural punishment

A

to afflict

vsto smite

71 6.0

Cause pain or trouble to people, animals and places

involves a single heavy blow or punishment often with supernatural force

S

to scourge

vsto smite

• NSFW

2 9.5

To whip someone as punishment for religious reasons

is a broader act involving a heavy blow or suffering, sometimes supernatural

S

to scathe

vsto smite

• Archaic

8.9

To harm someone or something

focuses instead on a heavy punitive blow or supernatural punishment

Antonyms

H

to heal

481 1.2

To become healthy again after an injury, illness, or emotional pain

C

to comfort

172 1.0

To make someone feel less upset or in pain

How Severe

to destroy

∞ 1.0

to smite

• Archaic

11 9.9

to wound

617 2.3

to harm

738 1.0

to punish

821 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology