bite

Meaning

1. To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
2. To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
3. To attack with the teeth.
4. To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
5. To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
6. To have significant effect, often negative.
7. To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
8. To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
9. To sting.
10. To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
11. To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.
12. To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
13. To take or keep a firm hold.
14. To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
15. (slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
16. (informal) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
17. (slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
18. (obsolete,slang) To deceive or defraud; to take in.

sting

gnaw

snap at

seize with teeth

insect bite

cause pain

eat some

hold in the mouth

bite into

grip with teeth

hold in mouth

chew gum

divide in two

have a snack

peck at

prey upon

snarl at

make teethmarks on something

swallowing in one gulp

bite at

have a smattering of

destory

be straight

pinch with fingernails

suck blood

hold tightly

wound caused by biting

musical passage

snack food

acid corrosion

joining-up

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holding-on

be in line with

gnaw at

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/baɪt/

From Middle English biten, from Old English bītan (“bite”), from Proto-West Germanic *bītan, from Proto-Germanic *bītaną (“bite”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“split”). Cognates include Saterland Frisian biete (“bite”), West Frisian bite (“bite”), Dutch bijten (“bite”), German Low German bieten (“bite”), German beißen, beissen (“bite”), Danish bide (“bite”), Swedish bita (“bite”), Norwegian Bokmål bite (“bite”), Norwegian Nynorsk bita (“bite”), Icelandic bíta (“bite”), Gothic 𐌱𐌴𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽 (beitan, “bite”), Latin findō (“split”), Ancient Greek φείδομαι (pheídomai), Sanskrit भिद् (bhid, “break”).