bitten

variants also bit
past participle of bite, informal + sometimes impolite
as in sucked
to be objectionable or unsatisfactory man, that really bites that you have to work on the weekend

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Recent Examples of bitten Other big-ticket items bit the dust this year. Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 12 Sep. 2025 However, once his guardian arrived at the day care center, the information they were told was allegedly changed, as it was revealed that the boy had been bitten by a copperhead snake. Latoya Gayle, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025 Last year, 47 people were bitten in unprovoked attacks. Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025 In 2010, while playing for Ajax in the Netherlands, Suarez bit the shoulder of Eindhoven’s Otman Bakkal and was handed a seven-game ban by the Dutch football federation. Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025 Researchers in the Netherlands took mosquitoes to a music festival to learn why some people get bitten more than others. Eva Amsen, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025 Saleh Bakri was bitten by a scorpion. Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2025 The 4-year-old reportedly told police Gardner kicked, slammed and bit the boy before pushing him down a flight of stairs. Lillian Metzmeier, Louisville Courier Journal, 5 Sep. 2025 An 8-year-old boy was flown to a Miami trauma center after a shark bit him in the ocean off the Florida Keys on Labor Day, authorities said. Chris Boyette, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bitten
sucked
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  • This new trailer gives a sense of the franchise's history, opening with footage of the young Kevin Flynn playing the 1982 version of TRON at his arcade before being sucked into the game world's grid.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Think about the inflationary era of 2022 — prices were high and rising faster than most Americans had ever experienced, which, to borrow a technical term, sucked.
    Allison Morrow, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025

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“Bitten.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bitten. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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