And day by day were the Iranians weakened, for they were smitten with great slaughter, and the number of their dead was past the counting.
When I look someone in the eye, they are immediately smitten with me.
For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives.
I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another.
I took a 19th-century Russian novel class in college and have been smitten with Russian literature ever since. Writers like Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Grossman, and Solzhenitsyn tackle the great questions of morality, politics, love, and death.