bite

1. 1.

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

   “Gunny invariably tried to bite her”

   Synonymsseize with teeth

   Broadergrip

   Narrowergnawsnap atsnapnibblenip
2. 2.

   cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort

   “The sun burned his face”

   Synonymsstingburn

   Broaderache

   Narrowernettle
3. 3.

   penetrate or cut, as with a knife

   “The fork bit into the surface”

   Broaderpierce
4. 4.

   deliver a sting to

   “A bee stung my arm yesterday”

   Synonymsstingprick

   Broaderpierce

Other forms of bite

plural

bites·

past tense or participle

bit

past tense or participle

bitten

present participle

biting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bite

What does bite mean?

bite means "a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person". That is the primary sense; the word has 13 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bite?

bite has 1 syllable: bite. In IPA it is /ˈbaɪt/.

What is another word for bite?

Close synonyms include morsel, bit, sting, insect bite, collation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bite a common word?

bite is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with bite?

12 words rhyme with bite. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.