Usually means: Malice directed to hurt others.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. spite: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. spite, spite: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. spite: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. spite: Collins English Dictionary
  5. spite: Vocabulary.com
  6. Spite, spite: Wordnik
  7. spite: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. spite: Wiktionary
  9. spite: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. spite: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. spite: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. spite: Dictionary.com
  13. spite (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. spite: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Spite (game theory), Spite (punk band), Spite (sentiment), Spite: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Spite: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. spite: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. spite: Rhymezone
  19. spite: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. spite: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. spite: Free Dictionary
  22. spite: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. spite: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. spite: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. spite: Legal dictionary

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  1. spite: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SPITE: Acronym Finder
  2. spite: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spite: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  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
noun:  (obsolete) Vexation; chagrin; mortification.
verb:  (transitive) To treat maliciously; to try to hurt or thwart.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To be angry at; to hate.
verb:  (transitive) To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.

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