snakebite

noun

snake·bite ˈsnāk-ˌbīt

: the bite of a snake and especially a venomous snake

Examples of snakebite in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Screens hung from every corner of the room so nobody missed a shot while queuing three-deep for pints of snakebite or shandy depending whether the drinker was on one or recovering from the night before. —

Hazlitt, 21 June 2023 This time, the tale — which centers on Eurydice, a fatal snakebite, and Orpheus’s epic journey to attempt to get her back from the dead — travels to a place even scarier than the Underworld: middle school. —

Angelina Parrillo, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2023 This form of profound paralysis occurs when the brain stem is damaged, usually because of a stroke but also as the result of tumors, traumatic brain injury, snakebite, substance abuse, infection or neurodegenerative diseases like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). —

Marla Broadfoot, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 May 2023 But in other countries, snakebite is a real and neglected problem. —

Christie Wilcox, Discover Magazine, 29 May 2016 Share [Findings] Hemotoxic snakebite may be treatable with a heavy-metal chelator. —

Lauren Oyler, Harpers Magazine, 26 Apr. 2023 Copperhead Copperheads are the most common venomous snake throughout Alabama and the primary culprit of reported snakebites. —

Cole Sikes Communications and Marketing Specialist Alabama Cooperative Extension System, al, 25 Apr. 2023 The unraveling begins with a snakebite. —

Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 20 Feb. 2022 An Indian woman died from a snakebite. —

Faith Karimi, CNN, 21 Nov. 2021 See More

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Word History

First Known Use

1839, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of snakebite was in 1839

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Kids Definition

snakebite

noun

snake·bite -ˌbīt

: the bite of a snake and especially a poisonous snake

Medical Definition

snakebite

noun

snake·bite -ˌbīt

: the bite of a snake

also : the condition resulting from the bite of a venomous snake and characterized by variable symptoms (as pain and swelling at the puncture site, blurred vision, difficulty in breathing, or internal bleeding)