Spite: alternatives and connections

To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye.

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To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face.

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Vexation; mortification.

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Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage.

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To reduce to a lower position in one's own eyes, or in the eyes of others; to humble; to mortify.

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The act of leaping on; onset; attack.

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To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle; as, to lacerate the flesh. Hence: To afflict; to torture; as, to lacerate the heart.

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To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in.

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Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal stin…

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To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dor…

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Elicited; drawn out; made real; open; evident.

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To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle.

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To call out; to summon forth.

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The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.

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To bring forth young.

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The quality or state of being malevolent; evil disposition toward another; inclination to injure others; ill will. See Synonym of Malice.

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Enmity of heart; malevolence; ill will; a spirit delighting in harm or misfortune to another; a disposition to injure another; a malignant design of…

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The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite.

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To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition; hence, commonly, to incite…

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To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.

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Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene.

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Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene.

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Offensively filthy; very dirty, foul, or defiled; disgusting; nauseous.

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Offensively filthy; very dirty, foul, or defiled; disgusting; nauseous.

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To strike against; to attack; to assail.

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To strike against; to attack; to assail.

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To injure, as by a blow or collision, without laceration; to contuse; as, to bruise one's finger with a hammer; to bruise the bark of a tree with a s…

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A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

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To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: (a) To hurt or wound, as the person; to…

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Enmity of heart; malevolence; ill will; a spirit delighting in harm or misfortune to another; a disposition to injure another; a malignant design of…

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The quality or state of being nasty; extreme filthness; dirtiness; also, indecency; obscenity.

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To strike against; to attack; to assail.

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Matter fatal or injurious to life; poison; particularly, the poisonous, the poisonous matter which certain animals, such as serpents, scorpions, bees…

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of Wind

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