1. To grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws
   "Gunny invariably tried to bite her"
    
2. Penetrate or cut, as with a knife
   "The fork bit into the surface"
    
3. Cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
   "The sun bit his face";
   - sting, burn
    
4. Deliver a sting to
   "A bee bit my arm yesterday";
   - sting, prick

1. The act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws
   "The horse took a big bite of the apple";
   - chomp
    
2. A wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person
   "The dog's bite required immediate medical attention"
    
3. A small amount of solid food; a mouthful
   "all they had left was a bite of bread";
   - morsel, bit
    
4. A light informal meal
   "He grabbed a quick bite before heading to the meeting";
   - collation, snack
    
5. A painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
   "She applied calamine lotion to soothe the itchy insect bite";
   - sting, insect bite
    
6. (angling) an instance of a fish taking the bait
   "after fishing for an hour he still had not had a bite"
    
7. A portion removed from the whole
   "the government's weekly bite from my paycheque"
    
8. Wit having a sharp and caustic quality
   "the bite of satire";
   - pungency
    
9. A strong odour or taste property
   "the sulphurous bite of garlic";
   - pungency, sharpness, raciness

Sounds like: bight, byte

Derived forms: biting, bites, bitten, bit

See also: snap at

Type of: ache, deduction, drollness, eating, feeding, grip, harm, humor [US], humour [Brit, Cdn], hurt, injury, lesion, meal, mouthful, pierce, repast, smart, spice, spicery, spiciness, subtraction, success, taste, trauma, wit, witticism, wittiness, wound

Encyclopedia: Bite, snack and meal