bitten

[ bit-n ]
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verb
  1. a past participle of bite.

Other words from bitten

  • un·bit·ten, adjective

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How to use bitten in a sentence

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

    Squinty the Comical Pig | Richard Barnum
  • When a malarious person is bitten by a mosquito, the gametes are taken with the blood into its stomach.

    A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis | James Campbell Todd
  • His neck was torn open, bitten right through to the windpipe, the blood still dripping from it into a dark pool on the carpet.

    Uncanny Tales | Various
  • 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.

    Uncanny Tales | Various

British Dictionary definitions for bitten

bitten

/ (ˈbɪtən) /


verb
  1. the past participle of bite

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Other Idioms and Phrases with bitten

bitten

see once bitten, twice shy; also see bite.

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