bite

/bɑɪt/ v [I] (past tense and past participle bit /bɪt/, past participle bitten /ˈbɪt·ən/) (HAVE AN EFFECT)

Definition

› to have an effect that is often unpleasant or severe: When the recession began to bite, people spent less on eating out in restaurants.

(Definition of bite v (HAVE AN EFFECT) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

real or true

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