- past participle of bite.
bitten
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Over half of the countries where venomous snakes pose a threat don’t keep count of how many people are bitten or envenomed.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
"You will hear that in an unrelated incident the defendant had previously been bitten by a dog."
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
The woman was bitten by the dog, and the pair let the dog out of the yard, luring him out with food, according to Reyes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
A surfer in his fifties was rushed to hospital on Monday after being bitten by a shark in Western Australia, the state government and local ambulance service said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026
He ripped off the piece I’d bitten and took a bite of the remaining toast.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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