Meanings
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of bite
plural bitings
- An instance of something being bitten.
- KenyaA bite-sized snack.
Here the guests were lavishly entertained with drinks and bitings even before sitting down to dinner.
1997, Women in Kenya, page 201 more example
More of a cafeteria than a purebreed coffeehouse, the neat little 21 does both full meals and snacks or 'bitings'.
2006, Kenya, page 116
comparative more biting · superlative most biting
- Tending to bite.
a biting insect
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveCausing a stinging sensation.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivecapable of wounding
adjectivecausing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Arabic عَضَّة, قَارِس
- عَضَّة (ʕaḍḍa)An occurrence of a bite
- قَارِس (qāris)causing a stinging sensation
- لَاذِع (lāḏiʕ)cutting or incisive
- جَارِح (jāriḥ)cutting or incisive
- عَقُور (ʕaqūr)tending to bite
- لَاسِع (lāsiʕ)tending to bite
Bulgarian хапане, ухапване
- хапане (hapane)instance of biting
- ухапване (uhapvane)instance of biting
- ухапване (uhapvane)An occurrence of a bite
- лют (ljut)causing a stinging sensation
- щипещ (štipešt)causing a stinging sensation
- остър (ostăr)causing a stinging sensation
- остър (ostăr)cutting or incisive
- хаплив (hapliv)tending to bite
Catalan punyent, mordaç
- punyentcausing a stinging sensation
- mordaçcutting or incisive
Esperanto acerba
- acerbacutting or incisive
Finnish pureminen, pureminen
- puremineninstance of biting
- pureminenAn occurrence of a bite
- purevacausing a stinging sensation
- purevacutting or incisive
- purevatending to bite
French mordant, mordant
- mordantcausing a stinging sensation
- mordantcutting or incisive
- mordanttending to bite
- mordeurtending to bite
German beißend, bissig
- beißendcausing a stinging sensation
- bissigcutting or incisive
- beißendcutting or incisive
- bissigtending to bite
- beißendtending to bite
- stechendtending to bite
Latin mordax, mordax
- mordaxcausing a stinging sensation
- mordaxcutting or incisive
Māori kōtaratara
- kōtarataracausing a stinging sensation
Norwegian Bokmål bitende, bitende
- bitendecausing a stinging sensation
- bitendecutting or incisive
- bitendetending to bite
Romanian pișcător, tăios
- pișcătorcausing a stinging sensation
- tăioscausing a stinging sensation
Scottish Gaelic sgaiteach
- sgaiteachcutting or incisive
Swedish bitande, bitande
- bitandecausing a stinging sensation
- bitandecutting or incisive
- bitandetending to bite
- bitsktending to bite
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with biting
Cite this entry
biting. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/biting
“biting.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/biting. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “biting,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/biting.
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