sink your teeth into somebody/somethingto bite someone or something with a lot of force, so that your teeth go right into them
sink your teeth into somethingput your teeth into someone's flesh, into food etc
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bite to use your teeth to cut, crush, or chew something:
The dog bit me! I sometimes bite my fingernails when I’m nervous. He bit into the apple.chew to keep biting something that is in your mouth:
Helen was chewing a piece of gum. He was chewing on a cigar.gnaw if an animal gnaws something, it bites it repeatedly:
The dog was in the yard gnawing on a bone.nip somebody/give somebody a nip to give someone or something a small sharp bite:
When I took the hamster out of his cage, he nipped me.nibble to take a lot of small bites from something:
A fish nibbled at the bait. She sat at her desk, nibbling her sandwich.sink your teeth into somebody/something to bite someone or something with a lot of force, so that your teeth go right into them:
The dog sank its teeth into my leg. He sank his teeth into the steak.chomp on something informal to bite something and chew it in a noisy way:
The donkey was chomping on a carrot. He was chomping away on big slice of toast.sting if an insect stings you, it makes a very small hole in your skin. You use
sting about bees, wasps, and scorpions, and
bite about mosquitoes, ants, spiders, and snakes:
She stepped on a wasps’ nest and must have been stung at least 20 times. [TahlilGaran] English Thesaurus ▲