- past participle of bite.
bitten
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Bitten by the entrepreneurial bug, Mr. Moore and Mr. Noyce decided in 1968 to form their own company, focusing on semiconductor memory.
From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2023
Barbashev gave the Blues a 2-1 lead at 3:51 of the second period when he buried a feed from William Bitten on an odd-man rush opportunity.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 6, 2022
Twice Bitten Patricia Cuffie-Jones’ 2021 thriller is a cautionary tale about a wealthy widow who eventually surrenders to her daughter’s urging for her to give online dating a try.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2021
Bitten Floridians can also call the Florida Poison Control Center, which will “tell you things to do to relieve a lot of the pain,” Alfred Aleguas, the director of the center in Tampa Bay, said.
From Fox News • Oct. 23, 2018
Bitten off more’n she can chew, if yeh ask me, all the work she’s tryin’ ter do.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
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