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"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "smite hip and thigh"
}
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},
"expansion": "Danish smide (“to throw”)",
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{
"args": {
"1": "got",
"2": "𐌱𐌹𐍃𐌼𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽",
"t": "to besmear, anoint"
},
"expansion": "Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐍃𐌼𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (bismeitan, “to besmear, anoint”)",
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}
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"etymology_text": "From 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”).\nCognate 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 𐌱𐌹𐍃𐌼𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (bismeitan, “to besmear, anoint”).",
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"form": "smote",
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"form": "smited",
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"ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 5:39:",
"text": "Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:",
"text": "A harp can give out but a certain quantity of sound, however heavily it is smitten.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., →OCLC, page 01:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 4, in The Land That Time Forgot, Chicago, Ill.: A. C. McClurg & Co., published 1924, →OCLC:",
"text": "\"Right you are!\" I cried. \"We must believe the other until we prove it false. We can't afford to give up heart now, when we need heart most. The branch was carried down by a river, and we are going to find that river.\" I smote my open palm with a clenched fist, to emphasize a determination unsupported by hope.",
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"To hit; to strike."
],
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"hit",
"hit#Verb"
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"(archaic) To hit; to strike."
],
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḍaraba",
"sense": "to hit",
"word": "ضَرَبَ"
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"roman": "udrjam",
"sense": "to hit",
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"sense": "to hit",
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"sense": "to hit",
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"sense": "to hit",
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"word": "zasáhnout"
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"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to hit",
"word": "iskeä"
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"word": "lyödä"
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"sense": "to hit",
"word": "bater"
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"word": "pegar"
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"sense": "to hit",
"word": "percutir"
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"word": "petar"
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"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to hit",
"word": "sacudir"
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"_dis1": "100 0 0 0 0 0 0",
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"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to hit",
"word": "zoscar"
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"_dis1": "100 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to hit",
"word": "schlagen"
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"_dis1": "100 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "plḗssō",
"sense": "to hit",
"word": "πλήσσω"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to hit",
"word": "sújt"
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"_dis1": "100 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to hit",
"word": "colpire"
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"_dis1": "100 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to hit",
"word": "tustar"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to hit",
"word": "picar"
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"_dis1": "100 0 0 0 0 0 0",
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"sense": "to hit",
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"word": "mach"
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"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to hit",
"word": "golpear"
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"_dis1": "100 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to hit",
"word": "bater"
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"_dis1": "100 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "karatʹ",
"sense": "to hit",
"word": "карать"
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"_dis1": "100 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "to hit",
"word": "buail"
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{
"_dis1": "100 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to hit",
"word": "udrieť"
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{
"_dis1": "100 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to hit",
"word": "zasiahnuť"
},
{
"_dis1": "100 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to hit",
"word": "trafiť"
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"_dis1": "100 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"code": "es",
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"sense": "to hit",
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"_dis1": "100 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to hit",
"word": "cascar"
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{
"_dis1": "100 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to hit",
"word": "vurmak"
},
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"_dis1": "100 0 0 0 0 0 0",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to hit",
"word": "çarpmak"
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"ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 3:19–20:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1653, Thomas Taylor, “Peters Repentance. Marke 14.27.”, in The Works of that Faithful Servant of Jesus Christ, Dr. Thom. Taylor, Sometimes Minister of the Gospel in Aldermanbury, London. Not Hitherto Published, (though Earnestly Desired by the Very Many Experimental Christians,) because the Iniquity of Those Times could not Bear such Burning and Shining Light, as is here Handed Forth in these Several Treatises Following. …, London: Printed by T. R. & E. M. for John Bartlet the elder and John Bartlet the younger, and are to be sold at the Golden Cup near Austins gate in the new Building, →OCLC, page 6:",
"text": "For it is written, I will ſmite the Shepheard, and the Sheep ſhall be ſcattered. […] Becauſe the Shepheard was to be ſmitten, they as Sheepe muſt be ſcattered. The Scope of which place is, to prove Chriſt the true Paſtor of the Flocke, even by his ſmiting and abaſement; and ſo moſt aptly alledged that the Diſciples might have matter of ſtrength and comfort thence where they ſtumbled and offended themſelves.",
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"To strike down or kill with godly force."
],
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],
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"kill",
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[
"godly",
"godly"
],
[
"force",
"force#Noun"
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"roman": "porazjavam",
"sense": "to strike down or kill with godly force",
"word": "поразявам"
},
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"_dis1": "6 82 2 5 2 1 3",
"code": "cs",
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"sense": "to strike down or kill with godly force",
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"perfective"
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"word": "srazit"
},
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"_dis1": "6 82 2 5 2 1 3",
"code": "cs",
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"sense": "to strike down or kill with godly force",
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],
"word": "ztrestat"
},
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"sense": "to strike down or kill with godly force",
"word": "doden"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "to strike down or kill with godly force",
"word": "frapper"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "to strike down or kill with godly force",
"word": "schlagen"
},
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to strike down or kill with godly force",
"word": "fulminare"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 82 2 5 2 1 3",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to strike down or kill with godly force",
"word": "annientare"
},
{
"_dis1": "6 82 2 5 2 1 3",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to strike down or kill with godly force",
"word": "annichilire"
},
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"_dis1": "6 82 2 5 2 1 3",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to strike down or kill with godly force",
"word": "fulminar"
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"_dis1": "6 82 2 5 2 1 3",
"code": "ro",
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"sense": "to strike down or kill with godly force",
"word": "trăzni"
},
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"_dis1": "6 82 2 5 2 1 3",
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"sense": "to strike down or kill with godly force",
"word": "nimici"
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"code": "sk",
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"sense": "to strike down or kill with godly force",
"word": "zraziť"
},
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"_dis1": "6 82 2 5 2 1 3",
"code": "sk",
"lang": "Slovak",
"sense": "to strike down or kill with godly force",
"word": "rozdrviť"
},
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"_dis1": "6 82 2 5 2 1 3",
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to strike down or kill with godly force",
"word": "öldürmek"
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"_dis1": "6 82 2 5 2 1 3",
"code": "tr",
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"sense": "to strike down or kill with godly force",
"word": "mahvetmek"
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"ref": "1746, Lodowick[e] Muggleton, “CHAP. XXV [of the Book of Revelation].”, in True Interpretation of All the Chief Texts, and Mysterious Sayings and Visions Opened, of the Whole Book of the Revelation of St. John. Whereby is Unfolded, and Plainly Declared, those Wonderful Deep Mysteries and Visions Interpreted, Concerning the True God, and Alpha and Omega. With Variety of other Heavenly Secrets, which Have Never Been Pen'd, Nor Revel'd to Any Man since the Creation of the World to this Day, until Now, London: First Printed for the Author, in the Year 1665. And now Re-printed by Subscription, →OCLC:",
"text": "VERSE 12. And the fourth angel ſounded, and the third part of the ſun was ſmitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the ſtars, ſo as the third part of them was darkened, and the day ſhone not for a third part of it, and the night likewiſe. […] [T]his Jeſus which ſignifies the ſun, was ſmitten with persecution and ſufferings in the time of his miniſtry, that there could but a third part of his heavenly light ſhine upon the people of the Jews, and happy were thoſe that this light did ſhine upon.",
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"To injure with divine power."
],
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"ref": "1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:",
"text": "\"She is sitting in the great hall even now to do justice upon those who would have smitten thee and the Lion.\"",
"type": "quote"
}
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"To kill violently; to slay."
],
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"ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 3:19–20:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1653, Thomas Taylor, “Peters Repentance. Marke 14.27.”, in The Works of that Faithful Servant of Jesus Christ, Dr. Thom. Taylor, Sometimes Minister of the Gospel in Aldermanbury, London. Not Hitherto Published, (though Earnestly Desired by the Very Many Experimental Christians,) because the Iniquity of Those Times could not Bear such Burning and Shining Light, as is here Handed Forth in these Several Treatises Following. …, London: Printed by T. R. & E. M. for John Bartlet the elder and John Bartlet the younger, and are to be sold at the Golden Cup near Austins gate in the new Building, →OCLC, page 6:",
"text": "For it is written, I will ſmite the Shepheard, and the Sheep ſhall be ſcattered. […] Becauſe the Shepheard was to be ſmitten, they as Sheepe muſt be ſcattered. The Scope of which place is, to prove Chriſt the true Paſtor of the Flocke, even by his ſmiting and abaſement; and ſo moſt aptly alledged that the Diſciples might have matter of ſtrength and comfort thence where they ſtumbled and offended themſelves.",
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"ref": "1746, Lodowick[e] Muggleton, “CHAP. XXV [of the Book of Revelation].”, in True Interpretation of All the Chief Texts, and Mysterious Sayings and Visions Opened, of the Whole Book of the Revelation of St. John. Whereby is Unfolded, and Plainly Declared, those Wonderful Deep Mysteries and Visions Interpreted, Concerning the True God, and Alpha and Omega. With Variety of other Heavenly Secrets, which Have Never Been Pen'd, Nor Revel'd to Any Man since the Creation of the World to this Day, until Now, London: First Printed for the Author, in the Year 1665. And now Re-printed by Subscription, →OCLC:",
"text": "VERSE 12. And the fourth angel ſounded, and the third part of the ſun was ſmitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the ſtars, ſo as the third part of them was darkened, and the day ſhone not for a third part of it, and the night likewiſe. […] [T]his Jeſus which ſignifies the ſun, was ſmitten with persecution and ſufferings in the time of his miniſtry, that there could but a third part of his heavenly light ſhine upon the people of the Jews, and happy were thoſe that this light did ſhine upon.",
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"ref": "1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:",
"text": "\"She is sitting in the great hall even now to do justice upon those who would have smitten thee and the Lion.\"",
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"ref": "2021 January 20, Drachinifel, 5:49 from the start, in Type 93 Long Lance Torpedo - Long Range Hole Poking Device, archived from the original on 2022-11-01:",
"text": "[…]and it turned out, if you just dumped pure oxygen and kerosene into the combustion chamber, the torpedo would travel at fairly-high speed... just instantaneously in all directions at once, disassembling itself, and any nearby people, with considerable enthusiasm. Explaining that this was entirely-unacceptable behavior for a torpedo that was designed to smite the Emperor's enemies didn't really tend to work out that well, since they hadn't yet invented the Machine Spirit, and, in any case, working out which bit of the torpedo you were supposed to talk to, or possibly scrape off the wall, was somewhat difficult once it had decided to launch a several-hundred-meter search into the realm of the honorable ancestors.",
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"ref": "1688, William Wake, Preparation for Death:",
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"ref": "1787 December, Charles Wilkins, “The Heetopades of Veeshnoo-Sarma. Translated from the Sanskreet Language. By Charles Wilkins.”, in The Edinburgh Magazine, or Literary Miscellany, volume VI, number 36, Edinburgh: Printed for J. Sibbald: and sold by J[ohn] Murray, London, →OCLC, page 383:",
"text": "A country deprived of the Ganges is ſmitten; a family without learning is ſmitten; a woman without a child is ſmitten; a ſacrifice without the Brahman's rights is ſmitten.",
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"text": "Who'd be smitten over a bird?",
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"ref": "1757, Alexander Pope, The Works of Alexander Pope: Esq., with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, volume 5, London: Printed for A. Millar; J. and R. Tonson; H. Lintot; and C. Bathurst., page 222:",
"text": "See what the charms that smite the simple heart, // Not touch'd by Nature, and not reach'd by art.",
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"ref": "2001, René of Anjou, edited by Stephanie Viereck Gibbs and Kathryn Karczewska, The Book of the Love-smitten Heart, New York, N.Y., London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 159:",
"text": "Thus was written beneath the arms of Arthur of Lesser, duke of Brittany […] Love nonetheless made me feel his dart, / For my person was smitten and inflamed / In its soul by she for whom I bore my shield here: […]",
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"ref": "2014, Colleen Coble, Kristin Billerbeck, Denise Hunter, Diann Hunt, The Smitten Collection: Smitten, Secretly Smitten, and Smitten Book Club, Thomas Nelson Inc., →ISBN:",
"text": "Maybe he was smitten with Clare. And maybe the fact that he didn't want to leave meant it was past time he did.",
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"word": "поразявам"
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"code": "it",
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{
"code": "it",
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"code": "sk",
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"word": "zraziť"
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{
"code": "sk",
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"word": "rozdrviť"
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"code": "tr",
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"word": "öldürmek"
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{
"code": "tr",
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"word": "mahvetmek"
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"code": "it",
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"code": "sk",
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"word": "uchvátiť"
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"code": "sk",
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"word": "urobiť silný dojem"
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"code": "sk",
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"ref": "1844, The Mysterious Man. A Novel. By the Author of Ben Bradshawe; the Man Without a Head [i.e. Frederick Chamier, T. C. Newby, page 192:",
"text": "On the other hand , your soft-headed, softhearted sentimentalist, whose heart is in his waistcoat pocket, always at hand for use, he who picks out the pretty parts of modern novels, and the tender parts of affecting tales, never hears of two young people meeting one another, but he begins to think that a smite must follow.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 45:",
"text": "‘That is just what I was about to venture to propose,’returned the doctor with a smite. But the words were hardly uttered, before the smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of such abject terror and despair, as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2007, Rupert Penny, Policeman's Holiday, Ramble House, →ISBN, page 82:",
"text": "Beale, who had not been driving very well, took a smite at his ball and sent it curving far away to the left into a mess of gorse of bramble bushes.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A heavy strike with a weapon, tool, or the hand."
],
"links": [
[
"heavy",
"heavy"
],
[
"strike",
"strike"
],
[
"weapon",
"weapon"
],
[
"tool",
"tool"
],
[
"hand",
"hand"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(archaic, rare) A heavy strike with a weapon, tool, or the hand."
],
"tags": [
"archaic",
"rare"
]
}
],
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{
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},
{
"ipa": "/smaɪt/"
},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-aɪt"
}
],
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{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "smight"
}
],
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}
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