Thump vs Smite - What's the difference?
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a blow that produces a muffled sound
* Tatler
the sound of such a blow; a thud
To hit (someone or something) as if to make a .
* (William Shakespeare)
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=January 19, author=Jonathan Stevenson, work=BBC
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To throb with a muffled rhythmic sound.
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, title= (lb) To hit.
*(Bible), (w) v.39:
*:Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
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*:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street.. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts.
*1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), , Ch.IV:
*:"Right you are!" I cried. "We must believe the other until we prove it false. We can't afford to give up heart now, when we need heart most. The branch was carried down by a river, and we are going to find that river." I smote my open palm with a clenched fist, to emphasize a determination unsupported by hope.
To strike down or kill with godly force.
To injure with divine power.
To put to rout in battle; to overthrow by war.
To afflict; to chasten; to punish.
*(William Wake) (1657-1737)
*:Let us not mistake God's goodness, nor imagine, because he smites us, that we are forsaken by him.
To strike with love or infatuation.
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*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:the charms that smite the simple heart
As verbs the difference between thump and smite
is that thump is to hit (someone or something) as if to make a thump while smite is to hit.As a noun thump
is a blow that produces a muffled sound.thump
English
Noun
(en noun)- The watchman gave so great a thump at my door, that I awaked at the knock.
Verb
(en verb)- These bastard Bretons, whom our fathers / Have in their own land beaten, bobb'd, and thump'd .
Leeds 1-3 Arsenal, passage=Kasper Schmeichel brilliantly denied Marouane Chamakh before Bacary Sagna thumped home a second, though Bradley Johnson's screamer halved the deficit.}}
Travels and travails, passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.}}
