bite

  1. Verb.  (transitive) To cut off a piece by clamping the teeth.
  2. Verb.  (transitive) To hold something by clamping one’s teeth.
  3. Verb.  (intransitive) To attack with the teeth.
  4. Verb.  (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
  5. Verb.  (intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
  6. Verb.  (intransitive) To fall for a deception.
  7. Verb.  (intransitive, of an insect) To sting.
  8. Verb.  (intransitive, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision.
  9. Verb.  (intransitive, slang) To plagiarize.
  10. Verb.  (informal) To bite a woman's pudenda.
  11. Noun.  The act of biting.
  12. Noun.  The wound left behind after having been bitten.
  13. Noun.  The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
  14. Noun.  A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
  15. Noun.  (slang) Something unpleasant.
  16. Noun.  (slang) An act of plagiarism.
  17. Noun.  A small meal or snack.
  18. Noun.  (figuratively) aggression.

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