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# smitten

«smitten» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: **struck** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### kind

archaic form

### modern equivalent

struck

### part of speech

verb, past participle of smite

### meaning for a pupil

Hit hard or struck down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/smitten/#m1)

### how it differs from today

Today smitten also means fond of or attracted to someone, which the Andersen sentence uses. The Torah sentences use the old sense of struck down.

### examples

- And seven days were fulfilled, after that the LORD had smitten the river. (Torah EXO.7.25, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/smitten/#x1)
- "At that time he was quite smitten with Charlotte. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/smitten/#x2)
- But the wheat and the spelt were not smitten; for they ripen late. — (Torah EXO.9.32, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/smitten/#x3)

### primary record

smitten

### tests

manual 6; corpora 22 (Torah 15, tales 7, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 2.5 (Torah alone 35.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

### In the corpora

- [And seven days were fulfilled, after that the LORD had smitten the river.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.202/)
- [And the flax and the barley were smitten; for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was in bloom.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.266/)
- [But the wheat and the spelt were not smitten; for they ripen late. —](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.267/)
- [Go not up, for the LORD is not among you; that ye be not smitten down before your enemies.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.565/)
- [So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.615/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «smitten» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/S/smitten/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.