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# smitten

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

### part of speech

adjective (no comparison); past participle of smite

### meaning for a pupil

1) (old use) Smitten means hit hard or struck down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smitten/#m1)

2) Smitten with means suddenly and strongly in love with someone, or very keen on something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smitten/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a man who is struck by love for a girl; also the past form of smite.

### examples

- He was smitten with Charlotte from the first day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smitten/#x1)
- Each man was smitten down in the battle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smitten/#x2)
- She is smitten with her new puppy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/smitten/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### 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/school/S/smitten/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.