Definition of biting
: having the power to bite a biting wind; especially : able to grip and impress deeply a biting wit
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a biting wind that only the toughest football fans were willing to endure
the biting comments by the popular girls about the new kid in class
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Aaron's description of Tom as the Devil is funny and moving, but the original script had a subplot that would have made Aaron's Satanic analogy more biting, and less about Aaron's heartbreak.
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But some of the most biting comments came from fellow Republicans who condemned the president’s morning rant.
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There was, for example, the California squirrel that went on a biting spree—attacking at least eight people last year.
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Those comments came after similarly biting remarks from the Turkish foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu.
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As controversial as Waters' Desert Trip performance was, his most biting commentaries were left on the cutting room floor.
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Among comedians, one of the most biting forms of humor remains the genre of schoolyard-style disses – rhetorical battles of wit and humor that up the ante for often lewd, personal taunts.
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Here of some of his more biting quotes, most of which appear directed at Trump as well as in defense of Obamacare: ***
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Also a hot ticket was the virtual-reality shark helmet, in which Isabella Dunham saw that big biting thing that impressed her.
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First Known Use of biting
14th century
BITING Defined for English Language Learners
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: unpleasantly cold
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: having a sharply critical and often clever quality
BITING Defined for Kids
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: causing intense discomfort It was cold, bleak, biting weather … — Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
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