bite off

1. 1.

   bite off with a quick bite

   “The dog snapped off a piece of cloth from the intruder's pants”

   Synonymssnap at

   Broaderbite

Questions about bite off

What does bite off mean?

bite off means "bite off with a quick bite".

What is another word for bite off?

Close synonyms include snap at. 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 off a common word?

bite off is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.