spited
spited is the simple past and past participle of spite.
Meaning of spite
Verb
spite (third-person singular simple present spites, present participle spiting, simple past and past participle spited)
- To treat maliciously; to try to hurt or thwart.
- She soon married again, to spite her ex-husband.
- To be angry at; to hate.
- The Danes, then […] pagans, principally spited places of religion.1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI)
- Synonyms:
- abhor, detest, loathe, abominate, can't stand, can't stand the sight of, despise, disrelish, execrate, hate
- To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.
- But the laſt and fatal Blow, given to that antient Learning, was in the time of Darius, Father of Xerxes, who with the reſt of the Perſians, ſpighted at the Magi, upon the Uſurpation of the Crown by one of their Number, (that counterfeited a younger Son of Cyrus after the Death of Cambyſes,) when...a. 1700 (date written), William Temple, “Some Thoughts upon Reviewing the Essay of Antient and Modern Learning”, in Miscellanea. The Third Part. […], London: […] Jonathan Swift, […] Benjamin Tooke...
Questions about spited
- What is spited the simple past and past participle of?
- Spited is the simple past and past participle of spite.
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