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Meanings of biting in in English

Spanish
mordido

In printmaking, chemical action of acid etching or ‘eating’ into a metal plate.

mordido
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Examples for "biting"
Examples for "biting"
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But recent government efforts to cool the market appear to be biting.
Reuters
2
Kachiun held himself still, biting back the questions he wanted to ask.
Genghis: bones of the hills: a novel
3
Did you believe some biting was necessary to maintain the LD population?
Raising Stony Mayhall
4
Most of the young men simply couldn't stand the biting and stinging.
Brave New World
5
Allan told Morning Report it was quite literally a nail biting evening.
Radio NZ
Usage of biting in in English
1
The midget said something biting in his peculiarly cracked and brittle voice.
Space Platform
2
Yet many of the creatures still clung to him, biting in fury.
Servant of a dark god
3
In fact, it's still biting in north Canterbury, he said.
Radio NZ
4
The trout take no pleasure in biting in such weather.
The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 3
5
I consider you in this declaration, like madmen biting in the hour of death.
The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 1 (1774-1779): The America...
6
I know so little about gouging and biting in clinches.
Ralestone Luck
7
She laid hold, biting in as deep and as far as she could get.
The Way of the Wild
8
He fell suddenly sombre, biting in reflection at his lip.
The Call of the North
9
It looked dangerous, and was biting in every direction.
Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions
10
By this time, Thatcherism was seriously biting in Dundee.
The Guardian
11
He tripped and went sprawling, pain biting in everywhere.
The chamber of ten
12
Goblins fighting and biting in the dark, everybody falling over bodies and hitting one another!
The hobbit: or there and back again
13
Suddenly the chill of the room would begin biting in awaking her from her tropical dream.
Mare Nostrum (Our Sea): A Novel
14
There was something cruelly biting in the reflection.
The Forfeit
15
I like to feel the warmth biting in.'
The Trespasser
16
His overcoat was wide open, and the wind was biting in, hard and full of merciless death.
The Beautiful and Damned
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Translations for biting in
Spanish
mordido
Biting in through the time
Biting in across language varieties
United Kingdom
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