{
    "term": "spite",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a feeling of wanting to hurt or upset somebody",
            "sensetop": "out of spite",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I'm sure he only said it out of spite.",
                    "contextForm": "out of spite"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He vented his spite on his grandfather."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I felt no spite towards her."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She killed her boss's dog out of pure spite."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was angry and full of spite."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This was her final act of spite."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["pure", "sheer", "personal"],
                "verb + spite": ["be full of", "feel", "vent"],
                "preposition": ["out of spite", "with spite", "spite towards/​toward"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "if you say that somebody did something in spite of a fact, you mean it is surprising that that fact did not prevent them from doing it",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "In spite of his age, he still leads an active life."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They went swimming in spite of all the danger signs."
                },
                {
                    "text": "English became the official language for business **in spite of the fact that** the population was largely Chinese."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "if you do something in spite of yourself, you do it although you did not intend or expect to",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He fell asleep, in spite of himself."
                },
                {
                    "text": "In spite of herself, tears welled up in her eyes."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/spaɪt/",
                "audio": "sp/spite/spite__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/spaɪt/",
                "audio": "sp/spite/spite__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: shortening of Old French despit ‘contempt’, despiter ‘show contempt for’."
}