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