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    smitten
    [ adj ]
    1. (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming

    2. <adj.all>
      conscience-smitten
      awe-struck
    3. marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness

    4. <adj.all>
      gaga over the rock group's new album
      he was infatuated with her


    Smite \Smite\ (sm[imac]t), v. t. [imp. {Smote} (sm[=o]t), rarely
    {Smit} (sm[i^]t); p. p. {Smitten} (sm[i^]t"t'n), rarely
    {Smit}, or {Smote}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Smiting}
    (sm[imac]t"[i^]ng).] [AS. sm[=i]tan to smite, to soil,
    pollute; akin to OFries. sm[=i]ta to smite, LG. smiten, D.
    smijten, G. schmeissen, OHG. sm[=i]zan to smear, stroke, OSw.
    & dial. Sw. smita to smite, Dan. smide to throw, Goth.
    bismeitan, to anoint, besmear; cf. Skr. m[=e]d to be fat. The
    original sense seems to have been, to daub on, to smear. Cf.
    {Smut}.]
    1. 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. --Matt. v. 39.

    And David . . . took thence a stone, and slang it,
    and smote the Philistine in his forehead. --1 Sam.
    xvii. 49.

    2. To cause to strike; to use as an instrument in striking or
    hurling.

    Prophesy, and smite thine hands together. --Ezek.
    xxi. 14.

    Saul . . . smote the javelin into the wall. --1 Sam.
    xix. 10.

    3. 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.

    4. To put to rout in battle; to overthrow by war.

    5. To blast; to destroy the life or vigor of, as by a stroke
    or by some visitation.

    The flax and the barly was smitten. --Ex. ix. 31.

    6. 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.
    --Wake.

    7. To strike or affect with passion, as love or fear.

    The charms that smite the simple heart. --Pope.

    Smit with the love of sister arts we came. --Pope.

    {To smite off}, to cut off.

    {To smite out}, to knock out, as a tooth. --Exod. xxi. 27.

    {To smite with the tongue}, to reproach or upbraid; to
    revile. [Obs.] --Jer. xviii. 18.


    Smitten \Smit"ten\ (sm[i^]t"t'n),
    p. p. of {Smite}.

    1. A lonesome moose that wandered south into the Berkshires where there are no other moose has been smitten by a herd of dairy cows.
    2. They would be gone from New York were it not for an offer of living space from Nagib Gebran, an Egyptian-American who was beaten by Jorge and then, apparently, smitten by him.
    3. Beset by management problems in its acquisitions, saddled with heavy debt and smitten by recession, the company has spent much of the 1990s struggling to keep its head above water. Turning Hoover around is crucial to Maytag's future.
    4. Wendy Newton of Weston, Conn., visited Ireland 16 years ago and was smitten by the fiddle music she heard one afternoon in a pub.
    5. This was partly because they found less new actual organisational practice than they had expected and partly because they became smitten by rhetorical theory.
    6. Rafko said she was equally smitten but needed a little prodding from her mother.
    7. Others get smitten by India's holy men, many of whom are dedicated frauds.
    8. Into her bored, sad life comes her daughter's castoff teen-age boyfriend, Bubber, who becomes smitten with the mother and won't take no for an answer.
    9. But by the spring of 1986 Andrew was clearly smitten with the red-haired Miss Ferguson.
    10. And she learns that her father is not the only man whose wishes will confront hers. She is far more smitten with Bassanio than he with her.
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