To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
As soon as you bite that sandwich, you'll know how good it is.
To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
To attack with the teeth.
That dog is about to bite!
The act of biting.
[…]I have knowne a very good Fiſher angle diligently four or ſix hours in a day, for three or four dayes together for a River Carp, and not have a bite[…]
The wound left behind after having been bitten.
That snake bite really hurts!
From Middle English biten, from Old English bītan (“bite”), from Proto-West Germanic *bītan, from Proto-Germanic *bītaną (“bite”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyd- (“split”). Cognates include Saterlan...
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