1.  spite(n = noun.feeling) malice, maliciousness, spitefulness, venom - feeling a need to see others suffer;
is a kind of malevolence, malignity
Derived form verb spite₁

2.  spite(n = noun.attribute) bitchiness, cattiness, nastiness, spitefulness - malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty;
is a kind of malevolence, malevolency, malice
Derived form verb spite₁

   spite(v = verb.emotion) bruise, hurt, injure, offend, wound - hurt the feelings of; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised my ego"
is one way to arouse, elicit, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise
Derived forms noun spite₂, noun spite₁
Sample sentences: Sam cannot spite Sue

1.  Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite. Pope. [1913 Webster]
"This is the deadly spite that angers." [1913 Webster]

2.  Vexation; chargrin; mortification. Shak. [1913 Webster]

1.  To be angry at; to hate. [1913 Webster]
"The Danes, then . . . pagans, spited places of religion." [1913 Webster]

2.  To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart. [1913 Webster]

3.  To fill with spite; to offend; to vex. [1913 Webster]
"Darius, spited at the Magi, endeavored to abolish not only their learning, but their language." [1913 Webster]

spite, n. & v.
--n.
1 ill will, malice towards a person (did it from spite).
2 a grudge.
--v.tr. thwart, mortify, annoy (does it to spite me).

Idiom:
in spite of notwithstanding. in spite of oneself etc. though one would rather have done otherwise.

Etymology:
ME f. OF despit DESPITE

N  malevolence, bad intent, bad intention, unkindness, diskindness, ill nature, ill will, ill blood, bad blood, enmity, hate, malignity, malice, malice prepense, maliciousness, spite, despite, resentment, uncharitableness, incompassionateness, gall, venom, rancor, rankling, virulence, mordacity, acerbity churlishness, hardness of heart, heart of stone, obduracy, cruelty, cruelness, brutality, savagery, ferity, ferocity, barbarity, inhumanity, immanity, truculence, ruffianism, evil eye, cloven foot, torture, vivisection, ill turn, bad turn, affront, outrage, atrocity, ill usage, intolerance, persecution, tender mercies, unkindest cut of all, malevolent, unbenevolent, unbenign, ill-disposed, ill-intentioned, ill-natured, ill-conditioned, ill-contrived, evil-minded, evil- disposed, black-browed, malicious, malign, malignant, rancorous, despiteful, spiteful, mordacious, caustic, bitter, envenomed, acrimonious, virulent, unamiable, uncharitable, maleficent, venomous, grinding, galling, harsh, disobliging, unkind, unfriendly, ungracious, inofficious, invidious, uncandid, churlish, surly, sullen, cold, cold-blooded, cold-hearted, black-hearted, hard-hearted, flint-hearted, marble-hearted, stony-hearted, hard of heart, unnatural, ruthless, relentless, cruel, brutal, brutish, savage, savage as a bear, savage as a tiger, ferine, ferocious, inhuman, barbarous, barbaric, semibarbaric, fell, untamed, tameless, truculent, incendiary, bloodthirsty, atrocious, bloodyminded, fiendish, fiendlike, demoniacal, diabolic, diabolical, devilish, infernal, hellish, Satanic, Tartaran, malevolently, with bad intent, cruel as death, hard unkindness' alter'd eye, homo homini lupus, mala mens, malus animus, rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind, sharp-tooth'd unkindness.

N  envy, enviousness, rivalry, jalousie de milier, illwill, spite, envious, invidious, covetous, alieni appetens, base envy withers at another's joy, caeca invidia est, multa petentibus desunt multa, summa petit livor.

in spite of appearance, with spite