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:

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

To cut, grip, or tear with or as if with the teeth. 2. a. To pierce the skin of with the teeth, fangs, or mouthparts. b. To sting with a stinger. 3. To cut into with or as if with a sharp instrument: The …

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.

There are 30 meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun bite, four of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

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.