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bitten 音标拼音: [b'ɪtən] vbl. 咬 咬 Bite \ Bite\ ( b[ imac] t), v. t. [ imp. { Bit} ( b[ i^] t); p. p. { Bitten} ( b[ i^] t" t' n), { Bit}; p. pr. & vb. n. { Biting}.] [ OE. biten, AS. b[ imac] tan; akin to D. bijten, OS. b[ imac] tan, OHG. b[ imac] zan, G. beissen, Goth. beitan, Icel. b[ imac] ta, Sw. bita, Dan. bide, L. findere to cleave, Skr. bhid to cleave. [ root] 87. Cf. { Fissure}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man. [ 1913 Webster] Such smiling rogues as these, Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To puncture, abrade, or sting with an organ ( of some insects) used in taking food. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense; as, pepper bites the mouth. " Frosts do bite the meads." -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To cheat; to trick; to take in. [ Colloq.] -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] 5. To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the anchor bites the ground. [ 1913 Webster] The last screw of the rack having been turned so often that its purchase crumbled, . . . it turned and turned with nothing to bite. -- Dickens. [ 1913 Webster] { To bite the dust}, { To bite the ground}, to fall in the agonies of death; as, he made his enemy bite the dust. { To bite in} ( Etching), to corrode or eat into metallic plates by means of an acid. { To bite the thumb at} ( any one), formerly a mark of contempt, designed to provoke a quarrel; to defy. " Do you bite your thumb at us?" -- Shak. { To bite the tongue}, to keep silence. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster]
Bitten \ Bit" ten\, a. ( Bot.) Terminating abruptly, as if bitten off; premorse. [ 1913 Webster]
Bitten \ Bit" ten\, p. p. of { Bite}. [ 1913 Webster]
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