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biting
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES an icy/biting/bitter wind (= very cold ) ▪ She shivered in the icy wind. savage/stinging/vicious/biting satire ▪ a biting satire of the television industry COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN wind ▪ There was a biting ...
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Biting is a common behaviour of opening and closing the jaw found in many animals. This behaviour is found in humans in addition to reptiles, mammals fish and amphibians. Arthropods can also bite. Biting is a physical action an attack but it is a normal ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Biting \Bit"ing\, a. That bites; sharp; cutting; sarcastic; caustic. ``A biting affliction.'' ``A biting jest.'' --Shak.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire" [syn: barbed , nipping , pungent , mordacious ] causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold; "bitter cold"; "a biting wind" [syn: bitter ]
Usage examples of biting.
The several varieties of Cress are stimulating and anti-scorbutic, whilst each contains a particular essential principle, of acrid flavour, and of sharp biting qualities.
It possesses an acrid, biting taste, somewhat like that of the Peppermint, which resides in the glandular dots sprinkled about its surface, and which is lost in drying.
Two goblins hurtled out in their wake, scratching and biting and both afire from head to foot.
They heaved in a great, tangled mass, thrusting, licking, panting, writhing, biting, while a crowd gathered on the sidewalk beneath the building, gesturing upward toward the ludicrous alfresco scene.
Biting her lip hard enough to draw blood, Angelina centered her mind on that self-inflicted pain.
I was recognized by an actor who accosted me, and introduced me to one of his comrades, a self-styled poet, and a great enemy of the Abbe Chiari, whom I did not like, as he had written a biting satire against me, and I had never succeeded in avenging myself on him.
Three months and eight days finished Batta and here Moore is alive over a year after his biting.
High walls surrounded Bryn Shander, as much protection from the biting wind as from invading goblins or barbarians.
The Carbine bucked as he pulled the trigger, the bullets biting into the lip of the brick wall, spraying dust and chunks of brick in every direction.
As the captain pushed into the city, the buzzing and biting insects of the plague began to fall dead in droves.
She was tossed back into the tube, went sliding and bouncing and falling back into the water, its iciness biting at her in those few places where the ooglith cloaker was not properly shielding her.
The Dean had driven over to Coft to see Sir Cathcart and Skullion stood alone in the biting wind watching Porterhouse row over for the second day running.
Farder Coram, watching from across the table, noted the places where the needle stopped, and watched the little girl holding her hair back from her face and biting her lower lip just a little, her eyes following the needle at first but then, when its path was settled, looking elsewhere on the dial.
Vppon the border in the necke of the couer, were two halfe rings, suppressed in the border by transuersion, one of them iust against another, which were holden in the biting teeth of two Lysarts, or byting Dragons of greene emerauld, bearing out from the couer.
Should Danseuse step with her sweet daintiness into a pothole and break her leg, I shall be forced to purchase for myself some horrible biting mule.