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biting 音標拼音: [b'ɑɪtɪŋ] a. 刺痛的,辛辣的 刺痛的,辛辣的 biting adj 1: capable of wounding; " a barbed compliment"; " a biting aphorism"; " pungent satire" [ synonym: { barbed}, { biting}, { nipping}, { pungent}, { mordacious}] 2: causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold; " bitter cold"; " a biting wind" [ synonym: { biting}, { bitter}] 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]
Biting \ Bit" ing\, a. That bites; sharp; cutting; sarcastic; caustic. " A biting affliction." " A biting jest." -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 165 Moby Thesaurus words for " biting": Attic, Siberian, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, acute, afflictive, agonizing, algid, arctic, asperous, astringent, atrocious, below zero, bitter, bitterly cold, bleak, boreal, brilliant, brisk, brumal, caustic, clear- cut, clever, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, corroding, corrosive, cramping, crisp, cruel, cutting, distressing, double- edged, driving, droll, edged, effective, escharotic, excruciating, facetious, fierce, forceful, forcible, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, funny, gelid, glacial, gnawing, grave, griping, gutsy, hard, harrowing, harsh, hibernal, hiemal, humorous, humorsome, hurtful, hurting, hyperborean, ice- cold, ice- encrusted, icelike, icy, imperative, impressive, incisive, inclement, ingoing, irritating, jesting, jocose, jocular, joking, joky, joshing, keen, keen- witted, mordacious, mordant, nervous, nimble- witted, nipping, nippy, nose- tickling, numbing, painful, paroxysmal, penetrating, piercing, pinching, piquant, poignant, pointed, powerful, punchy, pungent, quick- witted, racking, rapier- like, raw, rigorous, rough, salt, salty, scathing, scintillating, scorching, sensational, severe, sharp, shooting, sinewed, sinewy, slashing, sleety, slushy, smart, snappy, sour, sparkling, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, sprightly, stabbing, stinging, stone- cold, strident, striking, stringent, strong, subzero, supercooled, tart, telling, tormenting, torturous, trenchant, vehement, vigorous, violent, virulent, vital, vitriolic, whimsical, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry, withering, witty
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