Dictionary Entry

smart

Part of SpeechverbPronunciation/smɑːt/Used In Literature ↓

To hurt or sting.

In a Sentence

“After being hit with a pitch, the batter exclaimed "Ouch, my arm smarts!"”

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Common Phrases

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Poetry examples for “smart”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Smart lad, to slip betimes away
From fields where glory does not stay

Gallants, look here! this fool's cap[60] has an air, 30
Goodly and smart, with ears of Issachar.
Let no one fool engross it, or confine

But ah! what aggravates the killing smart,
The cruel thought, that stabs me to the heart;

And the wind is unquieter yet than thou art.
Does a thought in thee still as a thorn's wound smart?
Does the fang still fret thee of hope deferred?

But ye shall bend;
Ye are bondmen and bondwomen, to be scourged and smart,
To toil and tend."

O Cupid, that dost never cease my smart!
O boy, that liest so slothful in my heart!

Who first deprived young boys of their best part,
With self-same wounds he gave, he ought to smart.
To kind requests thou would'st more gentle prove,

So with this love and that wavers my mind. 10
Venus, why doublest thou my endless smart?
Was not one wench enough to grieve my heart?

What lawful is, or we profess love's art:
(Alas, my precepts turn myself to smart!) 20
We write, or what Penelope sends Ulysses,

And untilled ground with crooked ploughshares broke.
Who thinks her to be glad at lovers' smart,
And worshipped by their pain and lying apart?