(a.) Terminating abruptly, as if bitten off; premorse.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's an anxious time for those 180,000 teenagers chasing the last university places in clearing ; nails are bitten to the quick, eyes glazed from internet searching.
(2) Strikers, Hobblers, Conchies and Reds: A Radical History of Bristol 1880-1939 (2014) As the cultural consensus in British society moved further and further to the right, it seemed that the efforts to create a wider, more democratically inclusive history from below had bitten the dust.
(3) After hiding in bushes, where she was bitten by a snake, she decided to return to her family, only to find them being lined up next to one of the newly dug pits that had appeared near Tutsi homes.
(4) A 4-year-old girl was admitted 30 hours after being bitten by a black widow spider.
(5) From the mosquito catches and the results of their dissections for filarial larvae it could be estimated, that during the observation year a person in the savannah villages would be bitten annually by 18,165 and 36,450 vector mosquitoes respectively, and would receive 236 and 536 infective bites with 570 and 1211 infective larvae.
(6) There I got sunburnt, was bitten by a tick and chased by a sheep, and ran out of water, but I made it.
(7) Leather, who celebrated his seventh consecutive week at the top of the Amazon chart with his novella The Basement , about a serial killer in New York, also occupies fourth place with Hard Landing , another thriller, and 11th place with Once Bitten , a vampire novel.
(8) Last month, for example, the Daily Telegraph's Peter Oborne bemoaned their "devastating" fate, in a piece worth quoting at reasonable length, if only to prove that the idea of an out-of-touch elite blithely wreaking havoc is not the preserve of hard-bitten lefties.
(9) • This article was amended on 13 October 2014 to remove a statement that a two-year-old child in Meliandou, later identified as west Africa’s first case of Ebola, was bitten by a bat.
(10) "If we were to change that now because Luis Suárez has bitten someone then that would be a terrible message to send out.
(11) All the patients were bitten in the leg and the biopsy specimens were obtained from the contralateral gastrocnemius muscle in the middle of the lower leg.
(12) 100 consecutive patients whose finger had been bitten by another person, or who had cut it on a tooth in a fight, have been studied.
(13) The results demonstrate that meadow-mice, Columbian ground-squirrels, golden-mantled ground-squirrels, chipmunks and snowshoe hares (the latter to a lesser extent), when bitten by infected ticks, respond with rickettsiaemias of sufficient length and degree to infect normal larval D. andersoni.
(14) All were farm laborers and 35 of them were bitten in the lower limbs.
(15) None of the demographic characteristics available in this study distinguished between children who were bitten compared with those who were not bitten with the exception of number of days of enrollment.
(16) A young woman was bitten on the shoulder by a female Steatoda nobilis spider, in Worthing on the south coast of England.
(17) Twenty-one birds were bitten; chickens constituted 85.7%, turkeys 12% and ducks 4.8% of this number.
(18) The astute Rawling pointed out to Klitschko that his opponent was capable of anything – Chisora had bitten one opponent in the ring while kissing another at a press conference.
(19) The second patient, an inhabitant of northern Chile (fourth region), was allegedly bitten by Triatoma infestans and was an intravenous drug addict.
(20) Anticholinesterase did not improve paralysis in 2 patients bitten by kraits.