BITTEN (AT) Synonyms: 27 Similar and Opposite Words

bitten (at)

verb

variants also bit (at)

Definition of bitten (at) next

past participle of bite (at)

as in destroyed

to consume or wear away gradually the waves were biting at the sand castle I had worked so hard on

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Weather officials said the conditions were similar to those of early November, when dangerous winds whipped through Ventura County and fueled the Mountain fire, a nearly 20,000-acre inferno that destroyed 243 structures, including homes.

Corina Knoll, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2024
The Franklin fire is burning within much of the footprint of 2018’s devastating Woolsey fire, which destroyed more than 1,600 structures and burned about 97,000 acres in Malibu, the Santa Monica Mountains and surrounding communities of Thousand Oaks, Oak Park and Agoura Hills.

Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024

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