English Dictionary

spite

IPA（発音記号）

/spaɪt/

動詞

他動詞 廃用

(transitive) To treat maliciously; to try to hurt or thwart. / (transitive, obsolete) To be angry at; to hate. / (transitive) To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.

日本語の意味

悪意をもって扱う、傷つけたり阻止しようとする / 意地悪を働く、嫌がらせをする / 相手を怒らせる、嫌悪感を抱かせる

They spite their neighbors by turning up loud music late at night.

彼らは夜遅くに大音量の音楽を流して近所の人々を意地悪に扱う。

意味（1）

(transitive) To treat maliciously; to try to hurt or thwart.

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

意味（2）

(transitive, obsolete) To be angry at; to hate.

The Danes, then […] pagans, principally spited places of religion.

意味（3）

(transitive) 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 he came to be ſetled in that Throne, endeavour'd to aboliſh, not only their Learning and Credit, but their Language too, by changing the old Aſſyrian Characters, and introducing thoſe of Perſia, which grew to be the common Uſe of that whole Empire.

spites （ present singular third-person ）

spiting （ participle present ）

spited （ participle past ）

spited （ past ）