as in slaps
to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner
he shall smite his enemies with a mighty fist
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Recent Examples of smites
In Steel Nomad Light, the new Adreno GPU certainly smites the implementation of the old Adreno in the two Snapdragon X Elite systems here, delivering a bit more than double the score.
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Wendy Sheehan Donnell,
PC Magazine,
29 Sep. 2025
The flip side occurs when an area with good yields when bad weather smites the crop nationally.
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Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
17 Aug. 2025
Wendy Sheehan Donnell,
PC Magazine,
29 Sep. 2025
The flip side occurs when an area with good yields when bad weather smites the crop nationally.
—
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
17 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for smites
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Wilhelm enters the room, removes most of his clothing and gets into bed with her, slaps her, pushes her away and then caresses her face and cradles her.
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That direct relationship is what separates a true farm to table operation from a restaurant that simply slaps the phrase on a marketing page.
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The boy smacks him in the mouth and then immediately starts crying.
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An attack rears its ugly head, and the security team smacks it down.
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My parents tell stories about me sleeping through loud construction, alarms, and heavy knocks on my bedroom door.
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Palestra instead knocks it past him with his right foot with great balance in a tight space.
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Lightning hits the United States approximately 25 million times annually.
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When a large body hits, some of the impact energy goes into vaporizing or melting rock right at the impact site.
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Taylor Sheridan slams critics Sheridan's series are all hits with regular people, but he's routinely been a target for critics.
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His hand fans out into a wave, then the door slams shut.
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The crowd claps and cheers, screaming wildly when Buteau drops it rather politely before strutting with Peppermint to their seats on stage.
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Feint claps for the President could be heard on the ABC broadcast, but they were overwhelmed by the Bronx cheer.
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Tribunals have been appointed, and Coriolanus’ scornful elitism strikes them as too heavy a price for his military protection.
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Russia routinely strikes Ukrainian civilians, schools, churches, apartments and homes, power grids that light and heat them, ports, railways, airfields, and defense industry.
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With runners on the corners, Martinez whacks a two-run, RBI double to tie it at five.
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Then little Holly Wheeler and her 10-year-old friends, including the Season 5 favorite Derek (Jake Connelly), all swarm into the basement and take over the D&D table in a passing of the torch that basically whacks the audience over our collective heads.
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“Smites.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smites. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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