spite

🇺🇸 /spaɪt/ 🇬🇧 /spaɪt/
Frequency
Difficulty
Tags TOP10000Oxford5000CEFR-C2
noun
B2

A mean feeling that makes you want to hurt or upset someone.

She broke his toy out of spite because he made her angry.

verb
R

To do something on purpose to annoy or upset someone.

He ate the last cookie just to spite his sister.

translation

n. A mean feeling that makes you want to hurt or upset someone.
v. To do something on purpose to annoy or upset someone.

Word Forms

3rd Present spites
Progressive spiting
Past spited
Perfect spited
Plural spites