Definition of bite

"bite" in the noun sense

1. bite

a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person

2. morsel, bit, bite

a small amount of solid food a mouthful

"all they had left was a bit of bread"

3. sting, bite, insect bite

a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin

4. bite, collation, snack

a light informal meal

5. bite

angling) an instance of a fish taking the bait

"after fishing for an hour he still had not had a bite"

6. pungency, bite

wit having a sharp and caustic quality

"he commented with typical pungency"

"the bite of satire"

7. pungency, bite, sharpness, raciness

a strong odor or taste property

"the pungency of mustard"

"the sulfurous bite of garlic"

"the sharpness of strange spices"

"the raciness of the wine"

8. bite, chomp

the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws

9. bite

a portion removed from the whole

"the government's weekly bite from my paycheck"

"bite" in the verb sense

1. bite, seize with teeth

to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws

"Gunny invariably tried to bite her"

2. bite, sting, burn

cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort

"The sun burned his face"

3. bite

penetrate or cut, as with a knife

"The fork bit into the surface"

4. sting, bite, prick

deliver a sting to

"A bee stung my arm yesterday"

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Quotations for bite

You smile and bite. [ Proverb ]

Many smile who bite. [ Cotgrave ]

Dead folks cannot bite. [ Proverb ]

Good goose, don't bite. [ Proverb ]

Barking dogs seldom bite. [ Proverb ]

In every country dogs bite. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

His bark is worse than his bite. [ Proverb ]

Little serpents may bite mortally. [ Proverb ]

Great fleas have little fleas
Upon their backs to bite 'em;
And little fleas have lesser fleas,
And so ad infinitum. [ Lowell ]

Cause not your own dog to bite you. [ Proverb ]

I will never keep a dog to bite me. [ Proverb ]

Dogs ought to bark before they bite. [ Proverb ]

If it were a bear it would bite you. [ Proverb ]

Let dogs delight to bark and bite.
For God hath made them so;
Let bears and lions growl and fight.
For 'tis their nature to. [ Isaac Watts ]

Brag's a good dog, but dares not bite. [ Proverb ]

Dogs that bark at a distance never bite. [ Proverb ]

Then, rising with Aurora's light,
The muse invoked, sit down to write;
Blot out, correct, insert, refine.
Enlarge, diminish, interline;
Be mindful, when invention fails.
To scratch your head and bite your nails. [ Swift ]

Good jests bite like lambs, not like dogs. [ Proverb ]

A man may provoke his own dog to bite him. [ Proverb ]

You have taken a bite out of your own arm. [ Proverb ]

Never show your teeth unless you can bite. [ Proverb ]

Truth has rough flavors if we bite through. [ Mrs. Marian Lewes Cross (pen name George Eliot) ]

Better have a dog fawn upon you than bite you. [ Proverb ]

To fawn with the tail, and bite with the mouth. [ Proverb ]

Fools bite one another, but wise men agree together. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Though the mastiff be gentle, yet bite him not by the lip. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

But now so wise and wary was the knight
By trial of his former harms and cares,
That he descry'd and shunned still his slight;
The fish, that once was caught, new bait will hardly bite. [ Spenser ]

Like those dogs, that meeting with nobody else bite one another. [ Proverb ]

It is rare to find a fish,, that will not sometime or other bite. [ Proverb ]

Men that make envy and crooked malice nourishment, dare bite the best. [ William Shakespeare ]

Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite the man that mocks at it, and sets it light. [ William Shakespeare ]

I have known a very good fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite. [ Izaak Walton ]

Learn a man's limitations. If you make him bite off more than he can chew, don't get mad at him if he has to spit it out. [ George Horace Lorimer ]

Society, that distills so many poisons, resembles that serpent of India whose abode is the leaf of the plant that cures its bite: society usually offers a remedy for the sufferings it causes. [ A. de Musset ]

Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus Flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Let your pen fail, begin to trifle with blotting-paper, look at the ceiling, bite your nails, and otherwise dally with your purpose, and you waste your time, scatter your thoughts, and repress the nervous energy necessary for your task. [ G. H. Lewes ]

In the matter of diet - which is another main thing - I have been persistently strict in sticking to the things which didn't agree with me until one or the other of us got the best of it. Until lately I got the best of it myself. But last spring I stopped frolicking with mince-pie after midnight; up to then I had always believed it wasn't loaded. For thirty years I have taken coffee and bread at eight in the morning, and no bite nor sup until seven-thirty in the evening. Eleven hours. That is all right for me, and is wholesome, because I have never had a headache in my life, but headachy people would not reach seventy comfortably by that road, and they would be foolish to try it. And I wish to urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - that if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go. When they take off the Pullman and retire you to the rancid smoker, put on your things, count your checks, and get out at the first way station where there's a cemetery. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

bite in Scrabble®

The word bite is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters bite:

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bite in Words With Friends™

The word bite is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

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Words within the letters of bite

2 letter words in bite (2 words)

3 letter words in bite (3 words)

4 letter words in bite (1 word)

bite + 1 blank (8 words)

Word Growth involving bite

Shorter words in bite

it bit

Longer words containing bite

albite albites

ambitendencies

ambitendency

backbite backbiter backbiters

backbite backbites

bitegmic

biteless

bitemark bitemarks

biteplate biteplates

biter arbiter arbiters

biter backbiter backbiters

biter biterminal

biter biters arbiters

biter biters backbiters

biter biters cohabiters

biter biters exhibiters

biter biters nailbiters

biter biters orbiters

biter biters oxbiters

biter biters photoinhibiters

biter biters prohibiters

biter cohabiter cohabiters

biter exhibiter exhibiters

biter nailbiter nailbiters

biter orbiter orbiters

biter oxbiter oxbiters

biter photoinhibiter photoinhibiters

biter prohibiter prohibiters

bites albites

bites backbites

bites bugbites

bites cenobites

bites checkbites

bites coenobites

bites crossbites

bites fleabites

bites frostbites

bites lovebites

bites niobites

bites overbites

bites plumbites magnetoplumbites

bites ratbites

bites rebites

bites snakebites

bites sorbites

bites soundbites

bites stilbites

bites tailbites

bites trilobites

bites underbites

bitewing

bugbite bugbites

cenobite cenobites

checkbite checkbites

coenobite coenobites

cohabited

cohabitee cohabitees

cohibited

crossbite crossbites

debited

exhibited nonexhibited

exhibited reexhibited

fleabite fleabites

frostbite frostbites

inhabited reinhabited

inhabited uninhabited

inhibited disinhibited

inhibited noninhibited

inhibited photoinhibited

inhibited uninhibited uninhibitedly

inhibited uninhibited uninhibitedness

jackrabbited

lovebite lovebites

niobite niobites

orbited deorbited

overbite overbites

plumbite magnetoplumbite magnetoplumbites

plumbite plumbites magnetoplumbites

prohibited reprohibited

prohibited unprohibited

ratbite ratbites

rebite rebited

rebite rebites

snakebite snakebites

sorbite sorbites

soundbite soundbites

stilbite stilbites

subitem subitems

tailbite tailbites

trilobite trilobites

tungstibite

underbite underbites