Word Finder - bites

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The act of biting.

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The wound left behind after having been bitten.

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That snake bite really hurts!

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The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.

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After just one night in the jungle I was covered with mosquito bites.

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A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.

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There were only a few bites left on the plate.

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Something unpleasant.

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That's really a bite!

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An act of plagiarism.

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That song is a bite of my song!

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A small meal or snack.

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I'll have a quick bite to quiet my stomach until dinner.

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Aggression

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The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.

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A cheat; a trick; a fraud.

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A sharper; one who cheats.

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A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.

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A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.

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To cut into something by clamping the teeth.

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As soon as you bite that sandwich, you'll know how good it is.

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To hold something by clamping one's teeth.

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To attack with the teeth.

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That dog is about to bite!

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To behave aggressively; to reject advances.

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If you see me, come and say hello. I don't bite.

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To take hold; to establish firm contact with.

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I needed snow chains to make the tires bite.

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To have significant effect, often negative.

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For homeowners with adjustable rate mortgages, rising interest will really bite.

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(of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.

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Are the fish biting today?

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To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.

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I've planted the story. Do you think they'll bite?

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(of an insect) To sting.

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These mosquitoes are really biting today!

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To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.

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It bites like pepper or mustard.

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(sometimes figurative) To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.

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Pepper bites the mouth.

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To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.

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To take or keep a firm hold.

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The anchor bites.

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To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.

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The anchor bites the ground.

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To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.

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This music really bites.

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To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.

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You don't like that I sat on your car? Bite me.

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To plagiarize, to imitate.

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He always be biting my moves.

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To deceive or defraud; to take in.

Between bites he added, I even brought the white dress.

She felt two tiny bites on her arm, and suddenly electricity flew through her.

In 1898 it was conclusively shown in Italy that if a mosquito E of the Anopheles variety bites a person suffering from malaria, and is kept long enough for the parasite to develop in the salivary gland, and is then allowed to bite a healthy person, the latter will in due time develop malaria.

Between bites, Martha regaled the few late rising guests that lingered around the dining room with stories of her adventure and the bus window sights she'd visited.

Carmen had only taken a few bites before the telephone rang – a reminder that her cell phone was in her room.

While Dean stretched his muscles and alternated between bites of peanut butter sandwich and a banana, Fred perused the rest of the master lists.

The virus is transmitted to humans by mosquito bites.

When an insect bites your horse and penetrates the skin a red, itchy bump of some sort will occur.

There are times it can come back and bites you on the butt.

In tropical waters a sea snake is found, which, though very poisonous, rarely bites.

Mosquitoes caught by the experimenters, and sent to London, produced malaria in persons who submitted themselves to the bites of these insects at the London School of Tropical Medicine.

It is one thing to protect individuals from mosquito bites, another to prevent the propagation of the parasite in a whole community.

Thousands of people suffering from bites from rabid animals, from all lands, have been treated in this institute, and the death-rate from this most horrible of all diseases has been reduced to less than i %.

A gnat pupa swims through the water by powerful strokes of its abdomen, while the caddis-fly pupa, in preparation for its final ecdysis, bites its way out of its subaqueous protective case and rises through the water, so that the fly may emerge into the air.

There is no actual proof that this spider is more poisonous than others, but it is a significant fact that its species, inhabiting countries as widely separated as Chile, Madagascar, Australia, New Zealand and South Europe are held in great fear by the indigenous population, and many stories are current of serious or fatal results following their bites.

It is invariably the result of some cause acting generally, such as renal disease, valvular defect of the heart, or an impoverished state of the blood; while a mere oedema is usually dependent upon some local obstruction to the return of blood or lymph, or of both, the presence of parasites within the tissue, such as the filaria sanguinis hominis or trichina spiralis, or the poisonous bites of insects.

It grows rarely to a length of 4 ft.; it never bites, and feeds chiefly on frogs, toads and fishes, but mice are never taken.

Fortunately the majority are of small size, and their bites are not followed by more severe effects than those from the sting of a hornet.

Through this temporary protection the active pupa, which closely resembles the mature insect, subsequently bites a way by means of its strong mandibles, and rising to the surface of the water casts the pupal integument and becomes sexually adult.

Nicander of Colophon has also left us two epics, one on remedies for poisons, the other on the bites of venomous beasts.

It was used in unguents and against the bites of snakes, &c. In the middle ages the flower continued to be common and was taken as the symbol of heavenly purity.

Some chapters describe the manner in which he passes from earth to heaven and becomes a star in the firmament, others deal with the food and drink necessary for his continued existence after death, and others again with the royal prerogatives which he hopes still to enjoy; many are directed against the bites of snakes and stings of scorpions.

They deal for the most part with the hearing of diseases, the bites of snakes and scorpions, &c., but incidentally cast many sidelights on the mythology and superstitious beliefs.

It is extremely hard to draw any fixed line in Egypt between magic and medicine; but it is curious to note that simple diagnoses and prescriptions were employed for the more curable diseases, while magical formulae and amulets are reserved for those that are harder to cope with, such as the bites of snakes and the stings of scorpions.

There are also two kinds of ants, the semut dpi (" fire ant") and the semut ldda (" pepper ant"), whose bites are peculiarly painful.

Crustacea occupied an extremely prominent place; there were Phyllocarids such as Hymenocaris, and Ostracods like Entomidella; but by far the most important in numbers and development were the Trilo bites, now extinct, but in palaeozoic times so abundant.

It may be employed to destroy warts or small growths, to reduce exuberant granulations or it may be applied to bites.

Carmen had only taken a few bites before the telephone rang – a reminder that her cell phone was in her room.

Some things, like not eating too fast or taking large bites, not talking with the mouth full, might be assumed, but it was surprising how many people did them – in public, even.

Lemon oil is also highly antiseptic, making it ideal for gargling or applying to minor cuts, scrapes or insect bites.

All insect bites can usually be treated with an antiseptic cream.

Certain people are more susceptible to flea bites than others.

To stop mosquito bites itching apply a tiny dab of haemorrhoidal ointment.

Another fan poll bites the dust for another year.

I have just purchased a 17 year old, part Arab gelding that bites all the time.

About three bites into my meal I heard a grunt from behind me which might have been ` Move!

Man bites dog With the scent of unpaid levy in its nostrils, the CITB can be a bit of a rottweiler.

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All I needed was some something to relieve the pain from some rather nasty mosquito bites I have acquired.

Rather than waiting until the last minute and feeling overwhelmed with the size of the job, start now and take small bites.

Plus they tend to talk posh, which bites, frankly.

For years, brown recluse spiders have been blamed for bites on humans and pets, but brown recluse spiders don't live here.

To stop mosquito bites itching lick with your own saliva.

I see my fairy shrimps and tadpole shrimps avoid nets, or thrash when a predator bites them.

The tightness of the weave makes the smock impervious to insect bites.

Venereum Arvum work primarily with folk and medieval material, but they don't deal in easily digestible sound bites.

Between bites I was overcome by uncontrollable spasms of laughter.

Most deaths from snake bites occur on the Indian subcontinent where they are often forced into contact with humans.

When the bat bites its victim, it secretes this powerful clot-dissolving substance so that the victim's blood will keep flowing.

They have pushed through the lumpy earth and stand unmoved by the thrusting wind, the bites of cold air.