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Spited vs Spitted - What's the difference?

spited | spitted |

As verbs the difference between spited and spitted

is that spited is (spite) while spitted is (spit) or spitted can be (nonstandard) (spit).

As an adjective spitted is

shot out long; said of antlers.

spited

English

Verb

(head)
  • (spite)

    • spite

    English

    Etymology 1

    From a shortening of (etyl) despit, from (etyl) despit (whence despite). Compare also Dutch spijt.

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • 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.
    • He was so filled with spite for his ex-wife, he could not hold down a job.
    They did it just for spite .
  • * Shakespeare
    • This is the deadly spite that angers.
  • (obsolete) Vexation; chagrin; mortification.
    • "The time is out of joint: O cursed spite." Shakespeare, Hamlet

    Verb

    (spit)
  • To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.
    • She soon married again, to spite her ex-husband.
  • (obsolete) To be angry at; to hate.
    • The Danes, then pagans, spited places of religion. — Fuller.
  • To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.
    • Darius, spited at the Magi, endeavoured to abolish not only their learning, but their language. — Sir. W. Temple.
    Related terms
    * spiteful * in spite of * despite

    See also

    * malignant * malicious

    Etymology 2

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Notwithstanding; despite.

    • Statistics

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    Anagrams

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    spitted

    English

    Etymology 1

    See

    Verb

    (head)
  • (spit)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Shot out long; said of antlers.
    • (Francis Bacon)

    Etymology 2

    See

    Verb

    (head)
  • (nonstandard) (spit)
  • * Bible, Luke xviii. 32
    • He shall be mocked, and spitefully entreated, and spitted on.