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puraista — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bite verb To use the teeth to cut into, grip, or wound something.
  • snap verb To break suddenly with a sharp cracking sound.

Senses

puraista is used for these senses in English:

  • bite (transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
  • bite (transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
  • bite (intransitive) To attack with the teeth.
  • snap (intransitive) To attempt to seize or bite with the teeth, beak, etc.
  • snap (transitive) To snatch with or as if with the teeth.

bite — full definition

  1. verb To use the teeth to cut into, grip, or wound something.
  2. verb To have an unpleasant or harmful effect, often after a delay.
  3. noun An act of biting, or the mark left by one.

snap — full definition

  1. verb To break suddenly with a sharp cracking sound.
  2. verb To speak suddenly and sharply, often out of irritation.
  3. noun A quick photograph.
  4. adjective Made suddenly, without much thought or planning.

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