What's biting you?
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Biting
//ˈbaɪtɪŋ//
Synonyms for "biting" (184 found)
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Closest matches (37)
Strong matches (55)
Related words (92)
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Adjective(1 words)
Adjective(3 words)
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8 entriesderived from
1 entriesform of
1 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
5 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
45 translations across 13 languages.
Arabic
4 entries- جَارِح adj (cutting or incisive)
- عَقُور adj (tending to bite)
- قَارِس adj (causing a stinging sensation)
- لَاذِع adj (cutting or incisive)
Bulgarian
4 entries- лют adj (causing a stinging sensation)
- остър adj (causing a stinging sensation)
- остър adj (cutting or incisive)
- хаплив adj (tending to bite)
Catalan
2 entries- mordaç adj (cutting or incisive)
- punyent adj (causing a stinging sensation)
Esperanto
1 entries- acerba adj (cutting or incisive)
Finnish
4 entries- pureva adj (causing a stinging sensation)
- pureva adj (cutting or incisive)
- pureva adj (tending to bite)
- pureminen noun (instance of biting)
French
4 entries- mordant adj (causing a stinging sensation)
- mordant adj (cutting or incisive)
- mordant adj (tending to bite)
- mordeur adj (tending to bite)
German
4 entries- beißend adj (causing a stinging sensation)
- beißend adj (cutting or incisive)
- beißend adj (tending to bite)
- bissig adj (cutting or incisive)
Latin
2 entries- mordax adj (causing a stinging sensation)
- mordax adj (cutting or incisive)
Māori
1 entries- kōtaratara adj (causing a stinging sensation)
Norwegian Bokmål
3 entries- bitende adj (causing a stinging sensation)
- bitende adj (cutting or incisive)
- bitende adj (tending to bite)
Romanian
2 entries- pișcător adj (causing a stinging sensation)
- tăios adj (causing a stinging sensation)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- sgaiteach adj (cutting or incisive)
Swedish
4 entries- bitande adj (causing a stinging sensation)
- bitande adj (cutting or incisive)
- bitande adj (tending to bite)
- bitsk adj (tending to bite)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
You must get rid of the habit of biting your nails.
Source: tatoeba (39755)
I was biting my nails, worrying about you.
Source: tatoeba (52007)
They were biting like crazy yesterday.
Source: tatoeba (65850)
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