The meaning of BITE is to seize especially with teeth or jaws so as to enter, grip, or wound. How to use bite in a sentence.

To cause to sting or be painful: cold that bites the skin; a conscience bitten by remorse. 1. To grip, cut into, or injure something with or as if with the teeth. 2. To have a stinging effect. 3. To have a sharp taste. 4. To take or swallow bait. 5. To be taken in by a ploy or deception: tried to sell the Brooklyn Bridge, but no one bit. 6.

BITE meaning: 1. to use your teeth to cut into something or someone: 2. When a fish bites, it swallows the food…. Learn more.

BITE meaning: 1. to cut something using your teeth: 2. to begin to have a bad effect: 3. a piece taken from…. Learn more.

Definition of bite verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. [intransitive, transitive] to use your teeth to cut into or through something. Does your dog bite? Come here! I won't bite! (= you don't need to be afraid) bite into/through something She bit into a ripe juicy pear. bite somebody/something She was bitten by the family dog.

If you bite something, you use your teeth to cut into it, for example in order to eat it or break it. If an animal or person bites you, they use their teeth to hurt or injure you.

6 天之前 · bite (third-person singular simple present bites, present participle biting, simple past bit, past participle bitten or bit) (transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth. As soon as you bite that sandwich, you'll know how good it is. (transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth. (intransitive) To attack with the teeth.

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There are 47 meanings listed in OED's entry for the verb bite, nine of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

bite / snap someone's head off, to respond with anger or impatience to someone's question or comment: