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Common
verb
•
To
cut
into something by
clamping
the
teeth
.
•
To
hold
something by
clamping
one's
teeth
.
•
To
attack
with the
teeth
.
•
To
behave
aggressively
; to
reject
advances
.
•
To
take hold
; to
establish
firm
contact
with.
•
To have
significant
effect
, often
negative
.
•
To
bite
a
baited
hook
or other
lure
and thus be
caught
.
•
To
accept
something
offered
, often
secretly
or
deceptively
, to
cause
some
action
by the
acceptor
.
•
To
sting
.
•
To
cause
a
smarting
sensation
; to have a
property
which
causes
such a
sensation
; to be
pungent
.
•
To
cause
sharp
pain
or
damage
to; to
hurt
or
injure
.
•
To
cause
sharp
pain
; to
produce
anguish
; to
hurt
or
injure
; to have the
property
of so doing.
•
To take or
keep
a
firm
hold
.
•
To
take hold
of; to
hold
fast
; to
adhere
to.
•
To
lack
quality; to be
worthy
of
derision
; to
suck
.
⚠️
To
perform
oral sex
on. Used in
invective
.
•
In African-American Vernacular English:
To
plagiarize
, to
imitate
.
•
To
deceive
or
defraud
; to
take in
.
noun
•
The
act
of
biting
.
•
The
wound
left behind
after
having
been
bitten
.
•
The
swelling
of
one's
skin
caused
by an insect's
mouthparts
or
sting
.
•
A
piece
of food of a
size
that would be
produced
by
biting
; a
mouthful
.
•
Something
unpleasant
.
•
An
act
of
plagiarism
.
•
A
small
meal
or
snack
.
•
aggression
•
The
hold
which the
short end
of a
lever
has upon
the thing
to be
lifted
, or the
hold
which one
part of a
machine
has upon another.
•
A
cheat
; a
trick
; a
fraud
.
•
A
sharper
; one who
cheats
.
•
In Printing:
A
blank
on the edge
or
corner
of a
page
,
owing to
a
portion
of the
frisket
, or
something else
,
intervening
between the
type
and
paper
.
•
A
cut
, a
proportion
of
profits
; an
amount
of
money
.
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snitch
chew
mouthful
spiciness
sting
take the bait
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chomp
gnaw
peck
nip
stab
tickle
eat
bark
touch
swallow
poke
punch
claw
suck
mouth
kill
feed
slice
squish
paw
tooth
scratch
smell
smack
kiss
blow
beak
attack
meal
tongue
graze
kick
teeth
pull
strike
catch
nose
snap
choke
puff
burn
taste
bump
bruise
shake
rub
breath
grip
jaw
dog
tear
shot
cut
devour
maul
sip
animal
sneeze
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site
byte
bite
cite
nite
kite
lite
wite
mite
rite
eyot
shite
slite
quite
tryte
light
drite
pight
flite
hight
tight
unite
dight
bight
might
right
fight
write
sight
night
smite
wight
blite
twite
spite
white
trite
blight
adight
sprite
thwite
invite
alight
indict
plight
Sprite
slight
fright
wright
ignite
hilite
dright
flight
tonite
aright
knight
bright
Knight
height
excite
indite
rewrite
benight
bewrite
requite
tonight
relight
alright
sleight
uptight
despite
delight
bedight
contrite
misdight
parasite
daylight
impolite
disunite
epidosite
overnight
swartzite
highlight
overdight
a mite
widow's mite
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bite
English
bitan
Old English (ca. 450-1100)
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