Slites vs Spites - What's the difference?
slites | spites |
(slite)
(dialectal) To slit; tear or rip up.
(dialectal) To wear away (clothes).
(dialectal) The act or process of ripping up; rending; wear and tear.
(spite)
Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; a desire to vex or injure; petty malice; grudge; rancor.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Vexation; chagrin; mortification.
To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.
(obsolete) To be angry at; to hate.
To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.
As verbs the difference between slites and spites
is that slites is (slite) while spites is (spite).slites
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Verb
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* * * ----slite
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Alternative forms
* (l), (l) * (l) (Scotland)Verb
Noun
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* * * * * ----spites
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *spite
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Etymology 1
From a shortening of (etyl) despit, from (etyl) despit (whence despite). Compare also Dutch spijt.Noun
(en-noun)- He was so filled with spite for his ex-wife, he could not hold down a job.
- They did it just for spite .
- This is the deadly spite that angers.
- "The time is out of joint: O cursed spite." Shakespeare, Hamlet
Verb
(spit)- She soon married again, to spite her ex-husband.
- The Danes, then pagans, spited places of religion. — Fuller.
- Darius, spited at the Magi, endeavoured to abolish not only their learning, but their language. — Sir. W. Temple.
