transcription, транскрипция: [ spaɪt ]
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
You use in spite of to introduce a fact which makes the rest of the statement you are making seem surprising.
Their love of life comes in spite of, almost in defiance of, considerable hardship.
= despite
PREP-PHRASE
2.
If you do something in spite of yourself , you do it although you did not really intend to or expect to.
The blunt comment made Richard laugh in spite of himself...
PREP-PHRASE : PREP pron-refl
3.
If you do something cruel out of spite , you do it because you want to hurt or upset someone.
I refused her a divorce, out of spite I suppose...
N-UNCOUNT
4.
If you do something cruel to spite someone, you do it in order to hurt or upset them.
Pantelaras was giving his art collection away for nothing, to spite Marie and her husband.
VERB : only to-inf , V n
5.
to cut off your nose to spite your face: see nose