insect bite

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsstingbite

   Broaderinjury

   Narrowerbee stingflea bitemosquito bite

Questions about insect bite

What does insect bite mean?

insect bite means "a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin".

What is another word for insect bite?

Close synonyms include sting, bite. 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 insect bite a common word?

insect bite is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.