The meaning of BITE is to seize especially with teeth or jaws so as to enter, grip, or wound. How to use bite in a sentence.

bite verb (SNAKE/INSECT) If an insect or snake bites you, it injures you by making a small hole in your skin:

BITE definition: to cut, wound, or tear with the teeth. See examples of bite used in a sentence.

If you bite something, you use your teeth to cut into it, for example in order to eat it or break it. If an animal or person bites you, they use their teeth to hurt or injure you.

Definition of bite verb in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

A lion biting another lion's tail as play behavior. Biting is an action involving a set of teeth closing down on an object. [1] It is a common zoological behavior, being found in toothed animals …

Idioms bite someone's head off, to respond with anger to someone's question or comment: When the students asked for more time to write their papers, the teacher nearly bit their heads off.