Spite | Mean of spite in English Dictionary

/ˈspaɪt/

• Noun
• a desire to harm, anger, or defeat another person especially because you feel that you have been treated wrongly in some way
1. He is jealous and full of spite.
2. an act of spite
3. You only denied his request out of (pure) spite.
• without being prevented by (something)
1. He failed the test in spite of all his studying.
2. She went ahead in spite of the snow.
3. They made it on time in spite of the fact that they got a flat tire.
• even though you do not want to or expect to
1. I ended up having a good time in spite of myself.
• Verb

• to deliberately annoy, upset, or hurt (someone)
1. He only did it to spite me.