Clues for the word "BITE"
We've had 213 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 522 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Your Life Choices crossword on December 11, 2025.
Definition of bite
- v. t. - To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man.
- v. t. - To puncture, abrade, or sting with an organ (of some insects) used in taking food.
- v. t. - To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense; as, pepper bites the mouth.
- v. t. - To cheat; to trick; to take in.
- v. t. - To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the anchor bites the ground.
- v. i. - To seize something forcibly with the teeth; to wound with the teeth; to have the habit of so doing; as, does the dog bite?
- v. i. - To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent; as, it bites like pepper or mustard.
- v. i. - To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
- v. i. - To take a bait into the mouth, as a fish does; hence, to take a tempting offer.
- v. i. - To take or keep a firm hold; as, the anchor bites.
- v. - The act of seizing with the teeth or mouth; the act of wounding or separating with the teeth or mouth; a seizure with the teeth or mouth, as of a bait; as, to give anything a hard bite.
- v. - The act of puncturing or abrading with an organ for taking food, as is done by some insects.
- v. - The wound made by biting; as, the pain of a dog's or snake's bite; the bite of a mosquito.
- v. - A morsel; as much as is taken at once by biting.
- v. - The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
- v. - A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
- v. - A sharper; one who cheats.
- v. - A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
Referring Clues
- Angler's luck
- Mad dog worry
- Angler's hope
- Emulate 22-Across
- Fishing luck
- What unfriendly dogs do
- Incisiveness
- Dentist's request
- Itch cause, perhaps
- Quick snack
- Orthodontist's concern
- Take the bait
- Sample
- Nosh
- Little nosh
- Angler's quest
- Light snack
- Fisherman's wish
- Vampire's act
- Snack
- Dentist's concern
- Small snack
- Fisherman's hope
- Very small serving
- Morsel
- Insect wound
- Indicator of an interested fish
- Fisherman's encouragement
- "___ your tongue!"
- Hurt the dentist, perhaps
- Chomp
- Sting
- Small meal
- Snake attack
- Little snack
- Animal attack
- Take a piece out of
- Attack à la Dracula
- Something to eat
- Nip or nibble
- Fall for something
- Sharpness
- Wound from a fang
- Wound from a boxer
- Accept an offer
- Light meal
- Sharp quality
- Tug at the fishing line
- Tang
- Stinging effect
- Dentist's directive
- Small taste
- Sample of food
- Hit the green without rolling
- Food sample
- Nip
- Mosquito's calling card
- Tug on the fishing line
- Quick meal
- Interested fish indicators
- Angling hope
- "___ your tongue!"
- Dental occlusion
- It makes an angler anxious
- Sarcastic quality
- Fall for the scam
- What cold winds do
- Sink one's teeth into
- Anglers hope
- Fall for a con
- Cause for fishing hole excitement
- Mosquito attack
- Mouthful
- Quick nosh
- Calamine target
- Fall for a joke
- Possible fish
- More than suck
- Chomp down on
- Yield to persuasion
- Nibble
- Cause for fishing-hole excitement
- Fisherman's signal
- Dental concern
- Vampire attack
- Chomp down
- Keen quality
- Demonstrate occlusion for the dentist
- Fisher's wish
- Become a patsy
- Reveal one's gullibility
- Small smack
- Take the cake?
- Evidence of a vampire's visit
- Mark from Dracula
- Quick lunch
- Sharp flavor
- Sum deducted
- Morsel of food
- Taste, as of a sandwich
- Spicy quality
- Stinging sensation
- Get one's teeth into
- Make like a mosquito
- Forkful of food
- Fall for a scam
- Vampire victim's evidence
- ___ the bullet
- Occlusion of one's teeth
- Mosquito's attack
- Angler's encouragement
- Wound from a boxer?
- Word that can follow the first parts of 17- and 60-Across, and 10- and 28-Down
- Go for the worm
- Chomp on
- Go for the lure
- Grip
- Word after snake or sound
- Tasting menu portion
- What muzzled dogs can't do
- Be gullible
- Spicy taste
- "Take a ___ Out of Crime"
- "Take a ___ out of crime" (McGruff the Crime Dog)
- Small amount of solid food
- What mean dogs do
- Suck really bad
- Sound ___ (short recorded quote)
- Chew
- Use the teeth on
- All-American Rejects "___ Back"
- Franz Ferdinand "___ Hard"
- Attack from Dracula
- Guided by Voices song that broke the skin?
- Be out of it getting something to eat
- It may hurt a little at closing time
- It can hurt more than a bit
- A piece to start eating?
- Just a little portion of cheese to get your teeth into
- The bit on the end is a mere morsel
- See 8
- Grip with teeth
- Use teeth
- Piquancy
- Injury from teeth
- Not a lot to eat? Exist without it!
- To be swallowing it would be a mouthful
- See 5
- Snippet of sound
- Cause of an itch, maybe
- Sink the teeth into
- Small amount of food
- A snack is a bit of a habit, easily broken
- Grip coin, English
- Use teeth with energy
- Attack from a snake or dog
- Dentist's instruction
- See 2
- It goes a little way to stave off starvation
- Use choppers
- Nip absinthe regularly
- Go for a lure
- Black widow attack
- Pungent quality
- Put teeth into a sandwich
- Part of a cigarette end that goes in your mouth!
- Pungency
- Little taste
- Spiciness
- Use one's teeth on
- Rattler's attack
- Use one's teeth
- Be bamboozled
- What hungry fish do
- Taste of food
- Champ
- "I'll ___" ("Try me")
- Light meal; snack
- Ask the obvious question, so to speak
- Stop quickly on the green
- Pungent flavor
- Sound ___
- Go for the hook
- To eat, that piece at the end of the sausage
- Chomp or nip
- Instruction from a dentist
- Leave teeth marks on
- Vampire's attack
- Be holding it and get a nip from
- ___ off more than you can chew
- Chomp down hard
- Cut with teeth
- Get ready to taste sushi
- How a zombie might spread the infection
- Fall for it
- A piece to start eating?
- Feature on the right side of the Apple logo
- Grab a ___ to eat
- *Indentation on a chew toy
- Take a taste of sushi
- Leave fang marks in
- Modest meal
- Itchy mark from a flea
- "I'll ___"
- "Okay, I'll ___" ("Tell me more")
- Greeting from Dracula
- "Fine, I'll ___" ("Tell me more")
- Orthodontist's instruction
- Something good for an angler, bad for a dog trainer
- "Fine, I'll ___"
- More than a nibble
- Word with sound or snake
- What spicy food has
Last Seen In
- Your Life Choices - December 11, 2025
- Daily American - December 06, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - December 05, 2025
- New York Times - December 02, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 21, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 06, 2025
- New York Times - October 31, 2025
- Daily American - October 29, 2025
- LA Times - October 26, 2025
- Daily American - October 13, 2025
- Mirror Daily - October 11, 2025
- Daily American - September 16, 2025
- Daily American - August 14, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - August 08, 2025
- Mirror Daily - August 01, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 26, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 11, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - June 23, 2025
- Daily American - May 23, 2025
- New York Times - April 09, 2025
- Daily American - March 29, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 27, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 25, 2025
- Mirror Daily - March 22, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 20, 2025
- Daily American - March 03, 2025
- USA Today - March 03, 2025
- New York Times - February 19, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 22, 2025
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