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 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 Osbourne, who died July 22 at 76 after a heart attack, famously bit the head off a bat during a solo performance. Anna Kaufman, USA Today, 4 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, 3 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 At some point, when Vaughan likely reached up in self-defense, Smith said, Hawthorne bit the tip of his thumb off and spit it out. Charlotte Observer, 2 Sep. 2025 Anyone bitten should wash the bite with soap and water and contact Poison Control online or by phone. Gary Stoller, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bitten
sucked
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  • Eugene Domingo stars as Mauricia, a disrespected restaurant worker who, while watching soap operas one night, gets sucked through her TV screen into a training academy for villains.
    PC Magazine, PC Magazine, 5 Sep. 2025
  • While flying a shuttlecraft, she gets sucked into a wormhole and crashes onto a barren moon.
    Adam B. Vary, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025

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“Bitten.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bitten. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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