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WIKTIONARY
biting
Verb
  • ∙ present participle of bite
Noun
  • ∙ The action of the verb to bite.
  • ∙ An occurrence of a bite.
Adjective
  • ∙ Causing a stinging sensation.
  • ∙ Cutting or incisive.
  • ∙ Tending to bite.
bite
Verb
  • ∙ To cut off a piece by clamping the teeth. transitive
  • ∙ To hold something by clamping one's teeth. transitive
  • ∙ To attack with the teeth. intransitive
  • ∙ To behave aggressively; to reject advances. intransitive
  • ∙ To take hold; to establish firm contact with. intransitive
  • ∙ To have significant effect, often negative. intransitive
  • ∙ To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught. intransitive, of a fish
  • ∙ To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor. intransitive, figuratively
  • ∙ To sting. intransitive, transitive, of an insect
  • ∙ To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent. intransitive
  • ∙ To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense. transitive
  • ∙ To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing. intransitive
  • ∙ To take or keep a firm hold. intransitive
  • ∙ To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to. transitive
  • ∙ To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck. intransitive, slang
  • ∙ To perform oral sex on. Used in invective. transitive, informal, vulgar
  • ∙ To plagiarize, to imitate. intransitive, African American Vernacular, slang
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. slang
  • ∙ An act of plagiarism. slang
  • ∙ A small meal or snack.
  • ∙ aggression figuratively
  • ∙ 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. colloquial, dated
  • ∙ A sharper; one who cheats. colloquial, dated, slang
  • ∙ 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. printing