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Another word for bite

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Verb

  1. To seize, as food, with the teeth

    See also:

    ingestion

    attack

  2. To consume gradually, as by chemical reaction or friction

    See also:

    attack

  3. To feel or cause to feel a sensation of heat or discomfort

      1. To pierce or wound painfully with a sharp-pointed structure or organ, as that of certain insects.
      2. To cause to feel a sharp, smarting pain:
      3. To cause to suffer keenly in the mind or feelings:
      1. Having or showing intelligence; bright.
      2. Canny and shrewd in dealings with others:
      3. Amusingly clever; witty:
      1. To undergo combustion or be consumed as fuel:
      2. To be damaged, injured, or destroyed by fire, heat, radiation, electricity, or a caustic agent:
      3. To consume fuel:
    See also:

    pain

Noun

  1. A cutting quality

    See also:

    sharp

  2. A small portion of food

      1. A thing considered as a unit or an element of a larger thing, quantity, or class; a portion:
      2. A portion or part that has been separated from a whole:
      3. An object that is one member of a group or class:
      1. The amount of food or other material that can be placed or held in the mouth at one time.
      2. A small amount to be tasted or eaten.
      3. A long word, name, or phrase that is difficult to pronounce.
      1. A small piece of food.
      2. A tasty delicacy; a tidbit.
      3. A small amount; a piece:
      1. A very small piece broken from a baked item, such as a cookie, cake, or bread.
      2. A small fragment, scrap, or portion:
      3. The soft inner portion of bread.
      1. A small portion, degree, or amount:
      2. A brief amount of time; a moment:
      3. A short scene or episode in a theatrical performance.
    See also:

    big

  3. A light meal

    See also:

    ingestion

© Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Another word for bite

Noun

  1. What one takes in the mouth at one time

  2. The result of being bitten

      1. To pierce or wound painfully with a sharp-pointed structure or organ, as that of certain insects.
      2. To cause to feel a sharp, smarting pain:
      3. To cause to suffer keenly in the mind or feelings:
      1. An injury to an organism, especially one in which the skin or another external surface is torn, pierced, cut, or otherwise broken.
      2. An injury to the feelings.
      3. To inflict wounds or a wound on.
    See also:

    injury

  3. A sharp sensation

      1. To undergo combustion or be consumed as fuel:
      2. To be damaged, injured, or destroyed by fire, heat, radiation, electricity, or a caustic agent:
      3. To consume fuel:
      1. The act of piercing or pricking.
      2. The sensation of being pierced or pricked.
      3. A persistent or sharply painful feeling of sorrow or remorse.
      1. To pierce or wound painfully with a sharp-pointed structure or organ, as that of certain insects.
      2. To cause to feel a sharp, smarting pain:
      3. To cause to suffer keenly in the mind or feelings:
    See also:

    pain

  4. A quick meal

    See also:

    meal

Verb

  1. To seize or sever with the teeth

    See also:

    taste

    eat

  2. To be given to biting

    See also:

    hurt

    attack

  3. To cut or corrode

      1. To carve, cut, or etch into a material:
      2. To carve, cut, or etch a design or letters into:
      3. To carve, cut, or etch into a block or surface used for printing.
      1. To separate into components or basic elements.
      2. To cause to rot.
      3. To become broken down into components; disintegrate.
      1. To take in as food; eat or drink up.
      2. To expend; use up:
      3. To purchase (goods or services) for direct use or ownership.
      1. To break down into component parts; rot.
      2. To disintegrate in a process of radioactive decay or particle decay.
      3. To decrease gradually in magnitude. Used of voltage or current.
      1. To diminish or impair in quality, character, or value:
      2. To grow worse; degenerate:
      3. To weaken or disintegrate; decay:
      1. To cause to pass into solution:
      2. To reduce (solid matter) to liquid form; melt.
      3. To cause to lose definition; blend or blur:
      1. To wear (something) away by erosion:
      2. To eat into; corrode:
      3. To make or form by wearing away:
      1. To combine with oxygen; make into an oxide.
      2. To increase the positive charge or valence of (an element) by removing electrons.
      3. To coat with oxide.
      1. Any of various powdery or scaly reddish-brown or reddish-yellow hydrated ferric oxides and hydroxides formed on iron and iron-containing materials by low-temperature oxidation in the presence of water.
      2. Any of various metallic coatings, especially oxides, formed by corrosion.
      3. A stain or coating resembling iron rust.
      1. To undergo decomposition, especially organic decomposition; decay.
      2. To become damaged, weakened, or useless because of decay:
      3. To disappear or fall by decaying:
      1. To char, scorch, or burn the surface of.
      2. To brown (meat) quickly using very high heat.
      3. To cause to dry up and wither.
      1. To cut into the surface of (glass, for example) by the action of acid, especially by coating the surface with wax or another protective layer and drawing lines with a needle and then using the acid to form the lines on the unprotected parts of the surface.
      2. To make or create by this method:
      3. To draw or write by cutting or scraping:
      1. Having or showing intelligence; bright.
      2. Canny and shrewd in dealings with others:
      3. Amusingly clever; witty:
      1. To cut or form by cutting with forceful sweeping strokes:
      2. To make a gash or gashes in.
      3. To cut a slit or slits in, especially so as to reveal an underlying color:
      1. To pierce or wound painfully with a sharp-pointed structure or organ, as that of certain insects.
      2. To cause to feel a sharp, smarting pain:
      3. To cause to suffer keenly in the mind or feelings:
      1. To undergo combustion or be consumed as fuel:
      2. To be damaged, injured, or destroyed by fire, heat, radiation, electricity, or a caustic agent:
      3. To consume fuel:

  4. To take bait

  5. *To take a chance

      1. The possibility of suffering harm or loss; danger.
      2. A factor, thing, element, or course involving uncertain danger; a hazard:
      3. The danger or probability of loss to an insurer.
      1. A person who performs or offers to perform a service voluntarily:
      2. A person who chooses to enter a branch of the military without being drafted or forced to do so by law.
      3. A person who works without pay or assumes an obligation to which he or she is not a party or otherwise interested.
    See also:

    chance

Idioms:

    put the bite on

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Sentence Examples

  • Don't bite my head off.

  • It did not try to bite or scratch.

  • He lifted his head, whispering, "Bite me."

  • "It will try to bite me," he thought.

  • He swallowed a bite and chuckled.

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