biting

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One kid I saw had a left hand that was like leather because biting it calmed him down.

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Quick take

capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire"

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire"

adjective

causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold; "bitter cold"; "a biting wind"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for biting.

adjective

capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire"

See also: barbed, nipping, pungent, mordacious

adjective

causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold; "bitter cold"; "a biting wind"

Example sentences

One kid I saw had a left hand that was like leather because biting it calmed him down.

Certainly, biting off too much at once isn't workable.

You have to be biting your tongue awfully hard to shoot off "Google is, in other words, the new AOL.

Karma is finally biting Microsoft in the ass.

Also, NYC would probably be biting off more than Google Fiber has any interest in chewing at the moment.

Patents may, in fact, grow certain types of technology faster while inhibiting growth in other areas.

Do the consultants and banks who assist in these sort of things have a variable to account the back-biting scramble that will take place in each first year?

But then again, biting off too little can stall a movement too, as it can fail to inspire as much passionate support as a somewhat larger bite.

Offering an open letter of advice coupled with biting critique, rather than making a private offer, does strike a certain self-serving tone.

But I know that at my time at TechCrunch, biting friends was only ever ordered, and only when what they were doing was so blatantly bad it needed calling out.> TechCrunch has never ever once had editorial independence.