bite

Definitions

• (transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
• (transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
• (intransitive) 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) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
• (intransitive) To sting.
• (intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
• (transitive) To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.
• (intransitive) 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.
• (transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
• (intransitive) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
• (transitive) To perform oral sex on. .
• (intransitive) To plagiarize, to imitate.
• (obsolete) To deceive or defraud; to take in.