bite
咬住,咬伤,咬人,咬合
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bit, bit·ten or bit, bit·ing.
- : to cut, wound, or tear with the teeth: She bit the apple greedily. The lion bit his trainer.
- : to grip or hold with the teeth: Stop biting your lip!
- : to sting, as does an insect.
- : to cause to smart or sting: an icy wind that bit our faces.
- : to sever with the teeth: Don't bite your nails. The child bit off a large piece of the candy bar.
- : to start to eat: She bit into her steak.
- : to clamp the teeth firmly on or around: He bit hard on the stick while they removed the bullet from his leg.
- : Informal. to take advantage of; cheat; deceive: I got bitten in a mail-order swindle.to annoy or upset; anger: What's biting you, sorehead?
- : to eat into or corrode, as does an acid.
- : to cut or pierce with, or as with, a weapon: The sword split his helmet and bit him fatally.
- : Etching. to etch with acid in such parts as are left bare of a protective coating.
- : to take firm hold or act effectively on: We need a clamp to bite the wood while the glue dries.
Phrases
- bite off more than one can chew
- bite one's nails
- bite one's tongue
- bite someone's head off
- bite the bullet
- bite the dust
- bite the hand that feeds you
- bark is worse than one's bite
- put the bite on
- sound bite
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
If I’m looking at an enterprise size ecommerce site, I like to approach this in bite size pieces rather than tackling the entire site at the same time.
The discovery raises the possibility that caecilians may be the first amphibians found capable of delivering a venomous bite.
Scientists waiting with forceps and a razor on a lab rooftop tried to mimic bee activity in real time, bite by bite, on comparison plants.
Ancient relatives of today’s anchovies once had quite the bite.
People really need to understand that they need to do something, do it regularly, and it’s okay to take it in small bites.
Leapolitan responded by saying, “hopefully youll [sic] bite into a poison apple.”
One bite too many, and I could look down and practically see my thighs expanding before my eyes.
Taking a bite out of it made me feel like I was at a family bris… in a good, nostalgic way.
She has this little bit of a bite to her and a fight within her that does come through in little moments.
As soon as she took a bite of the apple, she fell to the ground and was dead.
Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit.