The Meaning of bite

• (v. t.) To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man.
• (v. t.) To puncture, abrade, or sting with an organ (of some insects) used in taking food.
• (v. t.) To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense; as, pepper bites the mouth.
• (v. t.) To cheat; to trick; to take in.
• (v. t.) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the anchor bites the ground.
• (v. i.) To seize something forcibly with the teeth; to wound with the teeth; to have the habit of so doing; as, does the dog bite?
• (v. i.) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent; as, it bites like pepper or mustard.
• (v. i.) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
• (v. i.) To take a bait into the mouth, as a fish does; hence, to take a tempting offer.
• (v. i.) To take or keep a firm hold; as, the anchor bites.
• (v.) The act of seizing with the teeth or mouth; the act of wounding or separating with the teeth or mouth; a seizure with the teeth or mouth, as of a bait; as, to give anything a hard bite.
• (v.) The act of puncturing or abrading with an organ for taking food, as is done by some insects.
• (v.) The wound made by biting; as, the pain of a dog's or snake's bite; the bite of a mosquito.
• (v.) A morsel; as much as is taken at once by biting.
• (v.) 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.
• (v.) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
• (v.) A sharper; one who cheats.
• (v.) 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.

Synonyms

morsel , bit , sting , insect bite , collation , snack , pungency , pungency , sharpness , raciness , chomp , seize with teeth , sting , burn , sting , prick

Homophones

bight , byte

Rhymes

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