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Antonyms for bite
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Wiktionary2.5 / 2 votes

  1. bitenoun

    To attack with the teeth.

    After just one night in the jungle I was covered with mosquito bites.

    Synonyms:
    sting

  2. bitenoun

    A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.

    There were only a few bites left on the plate.

    Synonyms:
    mouthful

  3. biteverb

    To sting.

    These mosquitoes are really biting today!

    Synonyms:
    snack

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. bitenoun

    a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person

    Synonyms:
    sting, bit, pungency, snack, collation, raciness, chomp, morsel, insect bite, sharpness

  2. morsel, bit, bitenoun

    a small amount of solid food; a mouthful

    "all they had left was a bit of bread"

    Synonyms:
    chip, second, snack, raciness, fleck, routine, insect bite, morsel, flake, pungency, number, moment, chomp, sting, sharpness, mo, scrap, piece, act, snatch, collation, spot, turn, bit, minute

  3. sting, bite, insect bitenoun

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

    Synonyms:
    confidence game, bunco, bit, morsel, snack, hustle, raciness, insect bite, confidence trick, pungency, chomp, bunko game, con game, gyp, stinging, pang, bunco game, sharpness, con, sting, collation, bunko, flimflam

  4. bite, collation, snacknoun

    a light informal meal

    Synonyms:
    sting, bit, pungency, snack, collation, raciness, chomp, morsel, insect bite, sharpness

  5. bitenoun

    (angling) an instance of a fish taking the bait

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

    Synonyms:
    sting, bit, pungency, snack, collation, raciness, chomp, morsel, insect bite, sharpness

  6. pungency, bitenoun

    wit having a sharp and caustic quality

    "he commented with typical pungency"; "the bite of satire"

    Synonyms:
    sting, snack, bit, chomp, collation, pungency, raciness, insect bite, morsel, sharpness

  7. pungency, bite, sharpness, racinessnoun

    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"

    Synonyms:
    acuteness, spiciness, snack, keenness, edge, insect bite, morsel, ribaldry, pungency, chomp, sting, acuity, distinctness, raciness, gaminess, sharpness, collation, asperity, bit

  8. bite, chompnoun

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

    Synonyms:
    sting, bit, pungency, snack, collation, raciness, chomp, morsel, insect bite, sharpness

  9. biteverb

    a portion removed from the whole

    "the government's weekly bite from my paycheck"

    Synonyms:
    sting, bit, pungency, snack, collation, raciness, chomp, morsel, insect bite, sharpness

  10. bite, seize with teethverb

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

    "Gunny invariably tried to bite her"

    Synonyms:
    seize with teeth, prick, sting, burn

  11. bite, sting, burnverb

    cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort

    "The sun burned his face"

    Synonyms:
    stick, burn down, seize with teeth, burn, prick, burn up, cut, twinge, incinerate, sunburn, sting, combust, burn off, cauterize, glow, cauterise, fire

  12. biteverb

    penetrate or cut, as with a knife

    "The fork bit into the surface"

    Synonyms:
    seize with teeth, prick, sting, burn

  13. sting, bite, prickverb

    deliver a sting to

    "A bee stung my arm yesterday"

    Synonyms:
    sting, seize with teeth, goad, stick, prick, burn, prickle, twinge, prick up, cock up

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. bitenoun

    Synonyms:
    mouthful, wheal

  2. biteverb

    Synonyms:
    champ, nibble, chew, sting, smart, tingle, take hold of, adhere, nip, blight, blast

How to use bite in a sentence?

  1. Bob Uecker:

    He said, ‘ You need to go to the hospital. That’s a brown recluse spider bite. That’s bad, ’ he knew right away.

  2. Julie Berliner:

    Breaking our products into single servings makes it intuitive for someone to eat one serving and know that if they are going to have more, they actually have to take another bite, they don't have to try to do the math and cut a cookie or a truffle up into several pieces.

  3. Gavin Naylor:

    Many people have never seen these animals, they have got this apocryphal mysterious kind reputation. They were believed – at least one species, the Ganges River shark – was believed to bite bathers in the Ganges River. But nobody ever saw them. It was a wonderful, frightening thing that some sort of monster grabs you but nobody knows what it is.

  4. Robert Rodriguez:

    It was n’t a bad bite Uma Thurman was n’t bleeding or anything, certainly you felt some teeth on flesh. It happens ; people get into their roles.

  5. Laurie Graham:

    I went to the lobby of the hotel, received the order. It was completely sealed and packaged. I got upstairs and we began to eat our food, and my husband was eating his fettuccine alfredo, and he took a bite and he thought it was hard chicken or some overcooked cheese and come to find out, it was a latex glove that had been melted into the food.

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