smart
/smɑɹt/ verb A2- To hurt or sting. · After being hit with a pitch, the batter exclaimed "Ouch, my arm smarts!"
- To cause a smart or sting in.
- To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to be punished severely; to feel the sting of evil.
He/she/it smarts · Past smarted · Past participle smarted · -ing form smarting
Verb forms
- Base form
- smart
- He/she/it
- smarts
- Past
- smarted
- Past participle
- smarted
- -ing form
- smarting
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
“Smart fellow, that,” observed Holmes as we walked away.
Anne could evidently be smart to some purpose for she was down-stairs in ten minutes’ time, with her clothes neatly on, her hair brushed and braided, her face washed, and a comfortable consciousness pervading her soul that she had fulfilled all Marilla’s requirements.
“White Mason is a smart man.
You may be very smart and clever, but the old hound is the best, when all is said and done.”
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