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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
smart .
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Examples
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Call smarted at the rebuke—he knew they had been lax with the mare, who had now effectively snubbed herself to the little tree.
Dead Man’s Walk Larry McMurtry 1995
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Call smarted at the rebuke—he knew they had been lax with the mare, who had now effectively snubbed herself to the little tree.
The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995
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If "smarted" is a regional vernacular, it's new, or …
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That stance appeared meant to win over the deeply Arab nationalist government of Syria, which has smarted against foreign intervention into Arab affairs.
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Impossible as it might seem, greater pay transparency might prompt, in the absence of greater redistribution, discontent rather than harmony – witness the unhappy footballers and writers who have smarted, as the noble AS Byatt unforgettably did, when a showier rival was publicly awarded what Monbiot's critics call "silly money".
Even if you show me yours, I'm not showing you mine | Catherine Bennett 2011
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He smarted with the truth of it, and at the same time he smarted with what he was convinced was the injustice of it.
Chapter 20 2010
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Some people dont act like American and dont trust the dept of our political system and THE AMERICAN BUSSINESS MEN 'they are some of the smarted people in the world. ted
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As tears smarted my eyes, she sat back in her big chair and said, oh well, go ahead and get something out of the china cabinet, whatever you want!
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I guy I know (white male) smarted mouthed some cops when we were in college and found himself in a headlock right afterwards.
NRCC targets Obama for saying Cambridge cop 'acted stupidly' 2009
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It certainly "smarted", but on the whole the birth was so straightforward I went around, for ages afterwards, droning smugly about how I was "of good working-class stock – hailing from an era when women would chuck one out, then carry on with the haymaking".
Don't believe the propaganda about births at home | Barbara Ellen 2011
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