spites
SaySPYTS/spaɪts/
- 1Third-person singular present of spite.
He spites his neighbor by parking across the shared driveway.
She spites her rival by praising everyone on the team except him.
Note
The verb form that always needs an object: someone spites a person, never simply spites. Because the noun spite is usually uncountable, spites is almost always this verb rather than a plural. The prepositional spite, meaning "despite," never takes an ending at all. An older meaning, to be angry at or to hate, is obsolete. Today "he spites them" means he sets out to hurt or thwart them.
spites is a form of spite
spite, verb: To treat someone maliciously, trying to hurt them or thwart what they want. Full entry
- Spelling
- spite → spites: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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