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Bite   /baɪt/   Listen
Bite

noun
1.
A wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person.
2.
A small amount of solid food; a mouthful.  Synonyms: bit, morsel.
3.
A painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin.  Synonyms: insect bite, sting.
4.
A light informal meal.  Synonyms: collation, snack.
5.
(angling) an instance of a fish taking the bait.
6.
Wit having a sharp and caustic quality.  Synonym: pungency.  "The bite of satire"
7.
A strong odor or taste property.  Synonyms: pungency, raciness, sharpness.  "The sulfurous bite of garlic" , "The sharpness of strange spices" , "The raciness of the wine"
8.
The act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws.  Synonym: chomp.
9.
A portion removed from the whole.
verb
(past bit; past part. bitten; pres. part. biting)
1.
To grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws.  Synonym: seize with teeth.
2.
Cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort.  Synonyms: burn, sting.
3.
Penetrate or cut, as with a knife.
4.
Deliver a sting to.  Synonyms: prick, sting.



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"Bite" Quotes from Famous Books



... different principle. Hydrophobia is certainly one of the most horrible of diseases, although comparatively rare. Its rarity would effectually prevent mankind from submitting to a general inoculation against it, but its severity would make one who had been exposed to it by the bite of a rabid animal ready to submit to almost any treatment that promised to ward off the disease. In the attempt to discover a means of inoculating against this disease it was necessary, therefore, to find a method that could be applied after the time of exposure—i.e., after ...
— The Story Of Germ Life • H. W. Conn
... silence sprang a voice at once: "Was the elephant badly hurt?" And then another: "I thought elephants were too big to feel a bite like that." Followed by a third—Maria's: "It wasn't fair to step on it and ...
— The Extra Day • Algernon Blackwood
... it is only a water-bug," he observed, rescuing the insect upon his thumb-nail. "You need not have been frightened, however, for they never bite." ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 25, September 17, 1870 • Various
... gums, there is always more or less inflammation, causing nervous fretfulness, and the impulse to put everything into the mouth. Usually there is disturbed sleep, a slight fever, and greater flow of saliva; this is often relieved by letting the child have ice to bite, tied in ...
— The American Woman's Home • Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe
... won't begrudge me a bite and sup till I find a job, dad?" the son said with just a little tremor in his voice. "I know I haven't really anything of my own. You have done everything for me. Your money bought the very clothes I stand in. You gave ...
— Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper • James A. Cooper


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