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bite has 13 distinct synonyms spread across 9 of its 13 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
(angling) an instance of a fish taking the bait
“after fishing for an hour he still had not had a bite”
a portion removed from the whole
“the government's weekly bite from my paycheck”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for bite come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
penetrate or cut, as with a knife
“The fork bit into the surface”