Definition of "smite" [smite]

• To inflict a heavy blow on, with or as if with the hand, a tool, or a weapon. (verb-transitive)
• To drive or strike (a weapon, for example) forcefully onto or into something else. (verb-transitive)
• To attack, damage, or destroy by or as if by blows. (verb-transitive)
• To afflict: The population was smitten by the plague. (verb-transitive)
• To afflict retributively; chasten or chastise. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Ay! as long as the prophet was ordered to stamp with his foot, I will stamp with my foot; -- (here he stamped till the platform trembled for its safety) -- and to smite with his hand, I will _smite_ with my hand -- (slapping alternate hands on alternate thighs.) -- Yes! and"
• "Some opined it was the work of an alien race, some blamed cosmic radiation and some called it a smite from a god who†™ d grown jealous of mankind†™ s omniscience over these machines, punishing his own creation for aspiring to become too godlike in its own way."
• "Big Bird will once again smite the politicians - as long as he isn't caught consorting with lesbians."