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Smite (verb)
To hit, to strike.
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Smite (verb)
To strike down or kill with force.
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Smite (verb)
To injure with divine power.
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Smite (verb)
To put to rout in battle; to overthrow by war.
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Smite (verb)
To afflict; to chasten; to punish.
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Smite (verb)
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?”
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Spite (noun)
Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; a desire to vex or injure; petty malice
“syn|en|grudge|rancor.”
“He was so filled with spite for his ex-wife, he could not hold down a job.”
“They did it just for spite.”
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Spite (noun)
Vexation; chagrin; mortification.
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Spite (verb)
To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.
“She soon married again, to spite her ex-husband.”
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Spite (verb)
To be angry at; to hate.
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Spite (verb)
To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.
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Spite (preposition)
Notwithstanding; despite.