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biting

DEFINITIONS OF: biting

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adj causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold

“a biting wind”
Synonyms:
bitter
painful
causing physical or psychological pain

adj capable of wounding

“a biting aphorism”
Synonyms:
barbed, mordacious, nipping, pungent
sarcastic
expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds
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