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Synonyms for bite
baɪtbite
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Wiktionary
bitenoun
To attack with the teeth.
After just one night in the jungle I was covered with mosquito bites.
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stingbitenoun
A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
There were only a few bites left on the plate.
Synonyms:
mouthfulbiteverb
To sting.
These mosquitoes are really biting today!
Synonyms:
snack
Princeton's WordNet
bitenoun
a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person
Synonyms:
sting, bit, pungency, snack, collation, raciness, chomp, morsel, insect bite, sharpnessmorsel, bit, bitenoun
a small amount of solid food; a mouthful
"all they had left was a bit of bread"
Synonyms:
chip, second, snack, raciness, fleck, routine, insect bite, morsel, flake, pungency, number, moment, chomp, sting, sharpness, mo, scrap, piece, act, snatch, collation, spot, turn, bit, minutesting, bite, insect bitenoun
a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
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confidence game, bunco, bit, morsel, snack, hustle, raciness, insect bite, confidence trick, pungency, chomp, bunko game, con game, gyp, stinging, pang, bunco game, sharpness, con, sting, collation, bunko, flimflambite, collation, snacknoun
a light informal meal
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sting, bit, pungency, snack, collation, raciness, chomp, morsel, insect bite, sharpnessbitenoun
(angling) an instance of a fish taking the bait
"after fishing for an hour he still had not had a bite"
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sting, bit, pungency, snack, collation, raciness, chomp, morsel, insect bite, sharpnesspungency, bitenoun
wit having a sharp and caustic quality
"he commented with typical pungency"; "the bite of satire"
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sting, snack, bit, chomp, collation, pungency, raciness, insect bite, morsel, sharpnesspungency, bite, sharpness, racinessnoun
a strong odor or taste property
"the pungency of mustard"; "the sulfurous bite of garlic"; "the sharpness of strange spices"; "the raciness of the wine"
Synonyms:
acuteness, spiciness, snack, keenness, edge, insect bite, morsel, ribaldry, pungency, chomp, sting, acuity, distinctness, raciness, gaminess, sharpness, collation, asperity, bitbite, chompnoun
the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws
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sting, bit, pungency, snack, collation, raciness, chomp, morsel, insect bite, sharpnessbiteverb
a portion removed from the whole
"the government's weekly bite from my paycheck"
Synonyms:
sting, bit, pungency, snack, collation, raciness, chomp, morsel, insect bite, sharpnessbite, seize with teethverb
to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws
"Gunny invariably tried to bite her"
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seize with teeth, prick, sting, burnbite, sting, burnverb
cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
"The sun burned his face"
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stick, burn down, seize with teeth, burn, prick, burn up, cut, twinge, incinerate, sunburn, sting, combust, burn off, cauterize, glow, cauterise, firebiteverb
penetrate or cut, as with a knife
"The fork bit into the surface"
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seize with teeth, prick, sting, burnsting, bite, prickverb
deliver a sting to
"A bee stung my arm yesterday"
Synonyms:
sting, seize with teeth, goad, stick, prick, burn, prickle, twinge, prick up, cock up
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#143 | number | |
#486 | second | |
#552 | act | |
#960 | fire | |
#982 | bit | |
#1007 | turn | |
#1324 | cut | |
#1852 | piece | |
#1953 | edge | |
#1967 | shot | |
#1981 | minute | |
#2152 | cock | |
#2189 | mo | |
#2258 | moment | |
#2529 | con | |
#2915 | spot | |
#3045 | dick | |
#3387 | stick | |
#3712 | chip | |
#4915 | burn | |
#5269 | routine | |
#8848 | bite | |
#9651 | glow | |
#11852 | snack | |
#12034 | scrap | |
#13618 | bites | |
#14457 | sting | |
#15156 | hunk | |
#16326 | snatch | |
#18963 | hustle | |
#28087 | prick | |
#28959 | flake | |
#29484 | bitten | |
#30484 | sharpness | |
#31607 | acuity | |
#33386 | pang | |
#40176 | stinging | |
#40719 | sunburn | |
#41736 | fleck | |
#43023 | mouthful | |
#43927 | collation | |
#57335 | chomp | |
#63299 | iub | |
#63896 | goad | |
#74892 | morsel | |
#90338 | bunko | |
#104149 | twinge | |
#107919 | incinerate | |
#113787 | gyp | |
#119460 | combust | |
#128335 | distinctness | |
#136271 | keenness | |
#138234 | bunco | |
#169005 | spiciness | |
#177701 | acuteness | |
#184250 | prickle | |
#209122 | asperity | |
#222069 | pungency | |
#225824 | cauterize |
How to use bite in a sentence?
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
We had a chances but we also gave up five, those opportunities wasted could come back to bite you at the end of the year.
People are slowly starting to enjoy sitting down at restaurants again, but don’t discount the value of convenience, during the pandemic, folks got a taste for what it’s like to have food from their favorite restaurants delivered right to their door. And now that they’ve gotten used to this service, there’s no going back. Restaurants need to continue to give customers all the options they’ve become accustomed to over the last year and a half. If not, they might grab a bite somewhere else.
Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: the heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.
With a lethal combination of bone-crunching bite forces, stereoscopic vision, rapid growth rates, and colossal size, tyrant dinosaurs reigned uncontested for 15 million years leading up to the end-Cretaceous extinction -- but it wasn't always that way, when and how quickly tyrannosaurs went from wallflower to prom king has been vexing paleontologists for a long time. The only way to attack this problem was to get out there and find more data on these rare animals.
Translations for bite
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- bytAfrikaans
- عضArabic
- куса́ць, ўкусі́цьBelarusian
- ухапване, хапка, захапвам, хапя, отха́пвам, щипя, заха́пвам, жиля, кълваBulgarian
- দংশন করা, কামড়ানোBengali
- mossegada, mossegarCatalan, Valencian
- mursicà, murdaCorsican
- kousatCzech
- bid, bideDanish
- Bissen, Biss, Stich, beißenGerman
- mordiEsperanto
- picar, morderSpanish
- گاز زدن, گزیدن, گاز گرفتن, نیش زدن, به دندان گرفتنPersian
- purema, puraisu, pistää, puraista, haukata, purra, syödäFinnish
- bítaFaroese
- morsure, piqûre, bouchée, mordre, piquerFrench
- biteWestern Frisian
- bain sclamh, bain plaic, bain greimIrish
- mordedela, mordedura, mordida, morderGalician
- נשיכה, נגיסה, נשך, נגסHebrew
- काटनाHindi
- harapHungarian
- խայթոց, կծելArmenian
- gigitIndonesian
- bítaIcelandic
- puntura, morso, boccone, morsicatura, pungere, morsicare, abboccare, mordereItalian
- 咬傷, 噛む, 嚼む, 咬む, 噛み切る, 嚙むJapanese
- ლუკმა, მოჭმაGeorgian
- ខាំKhmer
- 물린데, 묾, 돌리다, 물다, 쏘다, 물어떼다, 깨물다, 속다Korean
- кесим, тиштердин кабышып турушу, чагуу, тиштөө, кесүү, кабуу, тилке, үзүмKyrgyz
- mordeo, morsicoLatin
- Maufel, Bëss, Stach, bäissenLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- kodums, kostLatvian
- wero, tītopeMāori
- гриз, гри́зење, за́лак, одгри́зува, бо́де, па́ѓа, насе́днува, гри́зе, ка́са, загри́зуваMacedonian
- കടിMalayalam
- gigitMalay
- igdemMaltese
- ကိုက်Burmese
- beet, bijten, hapDutch
- biting, tygge, stikk, bitt, munnfull, bite, bite påNorwegian
- gryźćPolish
- mordida, bocada, mordedura, picada, cair, agarrar, abocanhar, morder, picarPortuguese
- kaniyQuechua
- morderRomansh
- înghițitură, mușcătură, înțepa, mușcaRomanian
- уку́с, укуси́ть, куса́ть, откуси́ть, попа́сться, клева́ть, жа́лить, клю́нуть, отку́сывать, хвата́ть, ужа́лить, купи́тьсяRussian
- гристи, gristi, угристи, ugristiSerbo-Croatian
- hrýzaťSlovak
- ugriz, grižjaj, gristi, ugriznitiSlovene
- kafshoj, kafshonAlbanian
- bett, bitande, tugga, munsbit, stick, bitaSwedish
- mdundoSwahili
- கடிக்கTamil
- కుట్టు, కొరుకు, కాటుTelugu
- газиданTajik
- กัดThai
- kagatTagalog
- ısırık, lokma, ısırmak, sokmakTurkish
- куса́ти, укуси́тиUkrainian
- cắnVietnamese
- 咬Chinese
- lumaZulu
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