smote
Hit with force
Smote is the past tense of smite, meaning to strike forcefully or defeat utterly.
The word appears most often in biblical or literary contexts: The Lord smote the Egyptians with plagues.
Outside religious texts, smote typically carries an ironic or dramatic tone: He smote his enemies in the video game.
The past participle is smitten.
Past tense of hitting
vanquished · felled · cleaved · bludgeoned · cudgel · mace · warrior · battle
Deadly epidemic disease
- exodusMass departure from somewhere
- pharaohAncient Egyptian ruler
- firstbornFirst child born
- wrathFierce, punishing anger
vengeance · judgment · divine · almighty · lord · scripture · testament · prophet
Fierce, punishing anger
- furyIntense violent anger
- judgmentReasoned decision-making capacity
- retributionPunishment for wrongdoing
- vengeanceRetaliation for injury
punishment · righteousness · thunderbolt · lightning · heavenly · almighty · omnipotent · righteous
Severe widespread destruction
- annihilationUtter, complete destruction
- obliterationTotal destruction or erasure
- ruinComplete destruction or collapse
- wreckageDestroyed remains of something
shattered · demolished · razed · leveled · decimated · pulverized · collapsed · ruination
struck
Past tense of hitting
slew · vanquished · felled · cleaved · bludgeoned · cudgel · mace · warrior · battle · slain
plague
Deadly epidemic disease
wrath · vengeance · judgment · divine · almighty · lord · scripture · testament · prophet · miracle
wrath
Fierce, punishing anger
- furyIntense violent anger
- judgmentReasoned decision-making capacity
- retributionPunishment for wrongdoing
vengeance · punishment · righteousness · thunderbolt · lightning · heavenly · almighty · omnipotent · righteous · sacred
devastation
Severe widespread destruction
- annihilationUtter, complete destruction
- obliterationTotal destruction or erasure
- ruinComplete destruction or collapse
wreckage · shattered · demolished · razed · leveled · decimated · pulverized · collapsed · ruination · havoc
archaic
Belonging to earlier times
dramatic · thunderous · mighty · fell · wrought · didst · thee · thou · hath · prose