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Pronunciation: [smˈa͡ɪts] (IPA)

There are several synonyms for the word "smites," which means to hit or strike forcefully. One alternative word is "pummels," which implies a repeated and heavy beating. Another synonym is "thrashes," which connotes a more wild and uncontrolled attack. "Smacks" suggests a quick and sharp blow, while "whacks" implies a harder and more intentional strike. "Slugs" and "socks" also suggest forceful blows, but with a more informal tone. "Bashes," "slams," and "slaps" all imply a forceful impact with an object or surface. Regardless of the specific synonym used, all convey a sense of power and force behind the action being taken.
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Usage examples for Smites

The Burman is naturally brave, but his philosophy is that of the Christian Socialist, it is not his creed to be heroic, or to take life, or thought for the morrow; and if a man smites him on the cheek, though he may not actually turn the other, he doesn't counter quick enough in our opinion-doesn't know our working creed-"Twice blest is he whose cause is just, but three times blest whose blow's in first;" so we took his country-and make it pay by the sweat of our brows-poor devils.
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch
I am, then, to kiss the hand that smites me?
"Quicksands"
Adolph Streckfuss
On days when the South Wind and the North Wind wrestle together, and when the Wind from the East smites the West Wind in shame before him, thou mayst see him raise his snowy head and long white beard above the grey-green waves of the sea, and lash the white-maned, unbridled, fierce sea-horses into fury before him.
"A Book of Myths"
Jean Lang

Famous quotes with Smites

  • There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame.
    William Langland
  • An humble soul knows that little sins, if I may so call any, cost Christ his blood, and that they make way for greater; and that little sins multiplied become great, as a little sum multiplied is great; that they cloud the face of God, wound conscience, grieve the Spirit, rejoice Satan, and make work for repentance, &c. An humble soul knows that little sins, suppose them so, are very dangerous; a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump, a little staff may kill one; a little poison may poison one, a little leak in a ship sinks it; a little fly in the box of ointment spoils it; a little flaw in a good cause mars it; so a little sin may at once bar the door of heaven and open the gates of hell; and therefore an humble soul smites and strikes itself for the least as well as the greatest.
    Thomas Brooks (Puritan)
  • The proud spirit of the original owners of these vast prairies inherited through centuries of fierce and bloody wars for their possession, lingered last in the bosom of Sitting Bull. With his fall the nobility of the Redskin is extinguished, and what few are left are a pack of whining curs who lick the hand that smites them. The Whites, by law of conquest, by justice of civilization, are masters of the American continent, and the best safety of the frontier settlements will be secured by the total annihilation of the few remaining Indians. Why not annihilation? Their glory has fled, their spirit broken, their manhood effaced; better that they die than live the miserable wretches that they are. History would forget these latter despicable beings, and speak, in later ages of the glory of these grand Kings of forest and plain that Cooper loved to heroism. We cannot honestly regret their extermination, but we at least do justice to the manly characteristics possessed, according to their lights and education, by the early Redskins of America.
    L. Frank Baum
  • Like the surface of the sea was the mirror of Tuzun Thune; hard as the sea in the sun's slanting beams, in the darkness of the stars, where no eye can pierce her deeps; vast and mystic as the sea when the sun smites her in such way that the watcher's breath is caught at the glimpse of tremendous abysses. So was the mirror in which Kull gazed.
    Robert E. Howard
  • Riding on the shell and shot. He smites you down, he succours you, And where you seek him, he is not.
    Robert Graves

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