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the body's tiniest argument, settled instantly with teeth.
means To grip, cut, or wound with the teeth — or the act, wound, or mouthful that results.
from From Old English bītan, 'to bite,' tracing back through Proto-Germanic *bītaną to the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰeyd-, 'to split or cleave.' That same ancient root for splitting things apart gave us a surprising cousin: 'bitter' — the taste sharp enough to feel like it's biting back. The word has kept its teeth for over a thousand years, barely changing shape.
- human force
- jaws clamp at roughly 160 pounds of pressure
- crocodile king
- saltwater crocs bite at 3,700 pounds
- appetite cousin
- comes from old english bitan, to break
- mosquito myth
- they pierce, not bite, with needle mouths
- sound shape
- a hard word that bites your tongue first
lyme disease tick bite — ixodes tick bite transmits borrelia burgdorferi, causing ~476,000 cases yearly in us
cobra bite envenomation — indian cobra bite kills ~81,000 people annually in asia through neurotoxic venom
rabies dog bite — dog bites cause 59,000 deaths per year globally, 99% fatal without post-exposure prophylaxis