Meaning of smite | Babel Free
smaɪtDefinitions
Equivalents
Examples
“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⟳.”
“‘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.”
“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.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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