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Biting   /bˈaɪtɪŋ/   Listen
Biting

adjective
1.
Capable of wounding.  Synonyms: barbed, mordacious, nipping, pungent.  "A biting aphorism" , "Pungent satire"
2.
Causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold.  Synonym: bitter.  "A biting wind"


Bite

verb
(past bit; past part. bitten; pres. part. biting)
1.
To grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws.  Synonym: seize with teeth.
2.
Cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort.  Synonyms: burn, sting.
3.
Penetrate or cut, as with a knife.
4.
Deliver a sting to.  Synonyms: prick, sting.



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"Biting" Quotes from Famous Books



... the brute seized an overhanging bough, and, with what we may style sluggish agility, swung itself clumsily but lightly to their side of the stream. It picked up the Durian which lay there and began to devour it. Biting off some of the strong spikes with which that charming fruit is covered, it made a small hole in it, and then with its powerful fingers tore off the thick rind and ...
— Blown to Bits - or, The Lonely Man of Rakata • Robert Michael Ballantyne
... good to me in a year," said she when the steak had vanished, dipping a white celery-heart in salt and biting the end ...
— Red Pepper Burns • Grace S. Richmond
... went down the rock, and walked about on the sand, biting his nails by the shore of the much-sounding sea. It stretched before him bright and immeasurable. The blue waters came rolling into the bay, foaming and roaring hoarsely: Pen looked them in the face with blank ...
— The History of Pendennis • William Makepeace Thackeray
... polished metal came into her eyes as the scene in the house of the Beg of Rataj shut out the lovely landscape before her. To destroy—to fan the spark to flame that she might extinguish it; to corrode the spirit with the biting acid of contempt; to envenom the soul—newly born, perhaps—to the sweeter uses of beneficence, and ...
— The Secret Witness • George Gibbs
... fierce, cruel night in March that saw the return of Alix. A fine, biting snow blew across the wide, open farmlands; the beasts of the field were snugly under cover; no man stirred abroad unless driven by necessity; the cold, wind-swept roads were deserted. So no one witnessed the return of Alix Crown and her husband. They came out of the bleak, unfriendly night ...
— Quill's Window • George Barr McCutcheon


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