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bitten

[ bit-n ]

verb

  1. a past participle of bite.


bitten

/ ˈbɪtən /

verb

  1. the past participle of bite
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Other Words From

  • un·bitten adjective
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Idioms and Phrases

see once bitten, twice shy ; also see bite .
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Example Sentences

But the title of Best Death definitely belongs to Bob Stookey, who got bitten by a zombie then captured by cannibals.

Some juice spills out when one is sliced or bitten, but it isn't nearly as plump and oozy as a traditional link.

If someone gets bitten by a snake and gets paralyzed, it has a similar effect, but more gentle effect on the skin.

For two years, and very ostentatiously, Sarkozy has bitten his tongue.

In May 2012, Mark Wolford, a third-generation snake handler, also died after being bitten by a rattlesnake.

Squinty squatted down beside one, and, with his strong teeth, he soon had bitten a hole in the cloth.

When a malarious person is bitten by a mosquito, the gametes are taken with the blood into its stomach.

His neck was torn open, bitten right through to the windpipe, the blood still dripping from it into a dark pool on the carpet.

On feeling the bite of the flea, thrust the part bitten immediately into boiling water.

He had nearly bitten his swollen tongue in two falling over an unseen peat-cutting, and blood-flecked foam gathered on his lips.

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