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smite

English

Alternative forms

  • smight (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English smiten, from Old English sm?tan (to daub, smear, smudge; soil, defile, pollute), from Proto-Germanic *sm?tan? (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 ???????????????????????????????????? (bismeitan, to besmear, anoint).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: sm?t, IPA(key): /sma?t/
  • Rhymes: -a?t

Verb

smite (third-person singular simple present smites, present participle smiting, simple past smote or smited or (obsolete) smit, past participle smitten or smote or smited or (obsolete) smit)

  1. (archaic) To hit, to strike.
    • 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 with godly 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 kill violently; to slay.
  5. To put to rout in battle; to overthrow by war.
  6. To afflict; to chasten; to punish.
    • 1688, William Wake, Preparation for Death
      Let us not mistake the goodness of God, nor imagine that because he smites us, therefore we are forsaken by him.
  7. (figuratively, now only in passive) To strike with love or infatuation.

Noun

smite (plural smites)

  1. (archaic, rare) A heavy blow or stroke with a weapon, tool or the hand.

Translations

Anagrams

  • METIs, MSTie, Metis, Métis, STEMI, Times, e-stim, emits, i-stem, items, metis, mites, métis, setim, stime, times

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian sm?ta, from Proto-Germanic *sm?tan?, from Proto-Indo-European *smeyd-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?smit?/

Verb

smite

  1. to throw
  2. to fling

Inflection

Further reading

  • “smite (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

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smash

English

Etymology

From a blend of smack +? mash. Compare Swedish smask (a light explosion, crack, report), dialectal Swedish smaska (to smack, kiss), Danish smaske (to smack with the lips), Low German smaksen (to smack with the lips, kiss).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /smæ?/
  • Rhymes: -æ?

Noun

smash (plural smashes)

  1. The sound of a violent impact; a violent striking together.
  2. (Britain, colloquial) A traffic collision.
  3. (colloquial) Something very successful or popular (as music, food, fashion, etc); a hit.
    • 2019, Ginaluca Russo, "Taylor Swift Stuns In a Periwinkle Ruffle Mini Dress on the Billboard Music Awards Red Carpet", Teen Vogue, 1 May 2019:
      All together, this look is a smash in our books.
  4. (tennis) A very hard overhead shot hit sharply downward.
  5. (colloquial, archaic) A bankruptcy.
  6. A kind of julep cocktail containing chunks of fresh fruit that can be eaten after finishing the drink.

Synonyms

  • (sound of a violent impact): crash
  • (colloquial: traffic accident): crash
  • (colloquial: something very successful): smash hit

Descendants

  • ? Czech: sme?
  • ? Serbo-Croatian: sme?

Translations

Verb

smash (third-person singular simple present smashes, present participle smashing, simple past and past participle smashed)

  1. To break (something brittle) violently.
    • 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine, Chapter X
      Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable.
  2. (intransitive) To be destroyed by being smashed.
  3. To hit extremely hard.
  4. (figuratively) To ruin completely and suddenly.
  5. (transitive, figuratively) To defeat overwhelmingly; to gain a comprehensive success over.
    I really smashed that English exam.
  6. (US) To deform through continuous pressure.
  7. (transitive, slang, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with.
    • 2020 November 7, Dave Chappelle on Saturday Night Live:
      Farmersonly.com. A website that begs the question, what kind of bitch only smashes with farmers?

Synonyms

  • (break violently): dash, shatter
  • (be destroyed by being smashed): shatter
  • (hit extremely hard): pound, thump, wallop; see also Thesaurus:hit
  • (ruin completely and suddenly): dash
  • (defeat overwhelmingly): slaughter, trounce
  • (have sexual intercourse with): coitize, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

Descendants

  • ? Catalan: esmaixar

Translations

Related terms

Anagrams

  • HMSAS, SAHMs, Sahms, Shams, shams

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English smash.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sma?/

Noun

smash m (plural smashs)

  1. (tennis) smash

Related terms

  • smasher

Further reading

  • “smash” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English smash.

Noun

smash m (invariable)

  1. smash (tennis shot)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English smash.

Noun

smash m (plural smashes)

  1. (tennis) smash (overhead shot hit sharply downward)

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