bite

To cut into something by clamping the teeth.

As soon as you bite that sandwich, you'll know how good it is.

To hold something by clamping one's teeth.

To attack with the teeth.

That dog is about to bite!

To behave aggressively; to reject advances.

If you see me, come and say hello. I don't bite.

To take hold; to establish firm contact with.

I needed snow chains to make the tires bite.

The act of biting.

[…]I have knowne a very good Fiſher angle diligently four or ſix hours in a day, for three or four dayes together for a River Carp, and not have a bite[…]

Now trust me when I tell you, young lady, teeth are something you want to take care of. They’re these rare white things that give us pleasure throughout our life. And give us bite. Our inheritance. Our means of survival. Our right to rule. Their enamel is the front line. And that line needs to be won every day.

The wound left behind after having been bitten.

That snake bite really hurts!

The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.

After just one night in the jungle I was covered with mosquito bites.

A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.

There were only a few bites left on the plate.

Not a soul in Corlaix will dare give us bite, sup, or shelter; and we shall die starved in a ditch, all four of us—that much we are our own, but in all else we are Monseigneur’s; all else, I say, all—all.

Something unpleasant.

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.

Acronym of behavior, information, thoughts, emotions (“four aspects of people's lives that a cult attempts to control”).