Synonyms for bite
baɪtbite

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:2.5 / 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 WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 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

Matched Categories

1. • Ache
   • Eating
   • Fishing
   • Meal
   • Pierce
   • Spiciness
   • Success
   • Taste
   • Wit
   • Wound

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. biteverb

   Synonyms:
   gnaw, chew, champ

2. biteverb

   Synonyms:
   blast, nip (as frost)

3. biteverb

   Synonyms:
   defraud, deceive, cheat, dupe, trick, gull, overreach, jockey, cozen, chouse, outwit, bamboozle, diddle, impose upon, beguile, mislead, inveigle, gammon

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bitenoun

   Synonyms:
   mouthful, wheal

2. biteverb

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

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "bite":

   piece, bitten, iub, bites, mouthful, sting, cock, dick, bit, shot, hunk

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How to use bite in a sentence?

1. Yiddish Proverb:

   If you can't bite, don't show your teeth.

2. Rex Tillerson:

   We're using large sticks, and that is what they need to understand. This pressure campaign is putting -- is having its bite on North Korea, its revenue streams. It's having a bite on its military programs.

3. Will Rogers:

   We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it.

4. Gail Vance Civille:

   Just on the texture side, [ the chocolate chip cookie ] has a lot going for it, every bite will be interesting. ... You will hit the cookie, which has crispness due to air pockets in the cookie crumb, and then the chocolate, which is dense and uniform when you bite through it. It's like a symphony orchestra playing together. ... It's very harmonious.

5. Josh Billings:

   It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.