bite
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Is bite a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of bite?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth.Examples: "As soon as you bite that sandwich, you'll know how good it is."transitive
2. (transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.transitive
3. (intransitive) To attack with the teeth.Examples: "That dog is about to bite!"intransitive
4. (intransitive, chiefly in the negative) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.Examples: "If you see me, come and say hello. I don't bite."intransitive
5. (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.Examples: "I needed snow chains to make the tires bite."intransitive
6. (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.Examples: "For homeowners with adjustable rate mortgages, rising interest will really bite."intransitive
noun (English)
1. (slang) Something unpleasant.Examples: "In February of this year, 9to5 was forced to lay off four of its paid staff, and began to feel the bite of its high-rent downtown office space."countableslanguncountable
2. (slang) An act of plagiarism.Examples: "That song is a bite of my song!"countableslanguncountable
3. (figuratively, uncountable) incisiveness, provocativeness, exactness.figurativelyuncountable
4. (figuratively, uncountable) Aggression.Examples: "Kathy Santen is full of bite as the bizarrely seduced Lady Anne, although her exaggerated diction is a bit too snappishly Shakespearean."; "In Tarabai’s text this exposure is direct, unusually blunt, full of bite and ridicule, and highly polemical."; "City scored the goals but periods of ball possession were shared - the difference being Villa lacked bite in the opposition final third."figurativelyuncountable
5. (colloquial, dated) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.Examples: "The baser methods of getting money by fraud and bite, by deceiving and overreaching."colloquialcountabledateduncountable
6. (colloquial, dated, slang) A sharper; one who cheats.Examples: "[I]t was conjectured, that Peregrine was a bite from the beginning, who had found credit on account of his effrontery and appearance, and impoſed himſelf upon the town as a young gentleman of fortune."; "So he went home cursing the Yorkshire bites, and swearing there was no living among them […]"colloquialcountabledatedslanguncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary