Smite vs. Spite — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Smite and Spite
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Smite
To inflict a heavy blow on, with or as if with the hand, a tool, or a weapon.
Spite
Malicious ill will prompting an urge to hurt or humiliate another person.
Smite
To drive or strike (a weapon, for example) forcefully onto or into something else.
Spite
To treat with spite; show spite toward
"Maybe she became engaged to him in order to spite another man" (Nathaniel West).
Smite
To attack, damage, or destroy by or as if by blows.
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Spite
Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the desire to unjustifiably irritate, annoy, or thwart; a want to disturb or put out another; mild malice
He was so filled with spite for his ex-wife, his brother was afraid of what he might do.
They did it just for spite.
Smite
To afflict
The population was smitten by the plague.
Spite
(obsolete) Vexation; chagrin; mortification.
Smite
To afflict retributively; chasten or chastise.
Spite
(transitive) To treat maliciously; to try to hurt or thwart.
She soon married again, to spite her ex-husband.
Smite
To affect sharply with great feeling
He was smitten by deep remorse.
Spite
To be angry at; to hate.
Smite
To deal a blow with or as if with the hand or a handheld weapon.
Spite
(transitive) To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.
Smite
(archaic) To hit; to strike.
Spite
Notwithstanding; despite.
Smite
To strike down or kill with godly force.
Spite
Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite.
This is the deadly spite that angers.
Smite
To injure with divine power.
Spite
Vexation; chargrin; mortification.
Smite
To kill violently; to slay.
Spite
To be angry at; to hate.
The Danes, then . . . pagans, spited places of religion.
Smite
To put to rout in battle; to overthrow by war.
Spite
To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.
Smite
To afflict; to chasten; to punish.
Spite
To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.
Darius, spited at the Magi, endeavored to abolish not only their learning, but their language.
Smite
To strike with love or infatuation.
Bob was smitten with Laura from the first time he saw her.
I was really smitten by the color combination, and soon repainted the entire house.
Who'd be smitten over a bird?
Spite
Feeling a need to see others suffer
Smite
A heavy strike with a weapon, tool, or the hand.
Spite
Malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty
Smite
To strike; to inflict a blow upon with the hand, or with any instrument held in the hand, or with a missile thrown by the hand; as, to smite with the fist, with a rod, sword, spear, or stone.
Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
And David . . . took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead.
Spite
Hurt the feelings of;
She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests
This remark really bruised me ego
Smite
To cause to strike; to use as an instrument in striking or hurling.
Prophesy, and smite thine hands together.
Saul . . . smote the javelin into the wall.
Smite
To destroy the life of by beating, or by weapons of any kind; to slay by a blow; to kill; as, to smite one with the sword, or with an arrow or other instrument.
Smite
To put to rout in battle; to overthrow by war.
Smite
To blast; to destroy the life or vigor of, as by a stroke or by some visitation.
The flax and the barly was smitten.
Smite
To afflict; to chasten; to punish.
Let us not mistake God's goodness, nor imagine, because he smites us, that we are forsaken by him.
Smite
To strike or affect with passion, as love or fear.
The charms that smite the simple heart.
Smit with the love of sister arts we came.
Smite
To strike; to collide; to beat.
The heart melteth, and the knees smite together.
Smite
The act of smiting; a blow.
Smite
Inflict a heavy blow on, with the hand, a tool, or a weapon
Smite
Affect suddenly with deep feeling;
He was smitten with love for this young girl
Smite
Cause pain or suffering in;
Afflict with the plague
That debasement of the verbal currency that afflicts terms used in advertisement
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