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spite

//spaɪt//

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Preposition

A word placed before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show its relationship to another part of the sentence.

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

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Forms

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural
spites

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)
spite
past (v2)
spited
past participle (v3)
spited
present participle
spiting
3rd person singular
spites

Definitions

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

  1. 1.Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the desire to unjustifiably irritate, annoy, or thwart; a want to disturb or put out another; mild malice.

    • This is the deadly spite that angers.
    • He was so filled with spite for his ex-wife, his brother was afraid of what he might do.
    • They did it just for spite.

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

  1. 1.To treat maliciously; to try to hurt or thwart.

    • She soon married again, to spite her ex-husband.

  2. 2.To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.

Preposition

A word placed before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show its relationship to another part of the sentence.

  1. 1.Notwithstanding; despite.

Frequency

Overall

Rare· #4872

By learning goal

Everyday conversation
Rare
General reading & writing
Rare
Academic
Rare
Literature
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Etymology

From Middle English spit, a shortening of despit (whence despite), from Old French despit, from Latin dēspectum (“looking down on”), from Latin dēspiciō (“to look down, despise”).

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