| verb | to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws “Gunny invariably tried to bite her” |
| verb | cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort “The sun burned his face” |
| verb | penetrate or cut, as with a knife “The fork bit into the surface” |
| verb | deliver a sting to “A bee stung my arm yesterday” |
| adjective | capable of wounding “a barbed compliment” |
| adjective | causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold “bitter cold” |
| bite | noun | a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person |
| biter | noun | someone who bites |
| sting | noun | a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung |
| stinger | noun | a sharp organ of offense or defense (as of a wasp or stingray or scorpion) often connected with a poison gland |
| burn | noun | pain that feels hot as if it were on fire |
| pungency | noun | wit having a sharp and caustic quality |