Nor were they men or elves, but ugly and hairy and huge, with strange designs bitten into the skin on their faces.
Kerr, Katharine A TIME OF WAR (2004)
In the normal course of events she'd have bitten back, made some provoking comment.
Cassidy, Anne IN REAL LIFE (2004)
People bustled by, mouths trailing vapor, faces flushed and bitten by cold.
Rodriguez, Abraham SPIDERTOWN (2004)
All related terms of 'bitten'
bite
If you bite something, you use your teeth to cut into it, for example in order to eat it or break it. If an animal or person bites you, they use their teeth to hurt or injure you.
flea-bitten
bitten by or infested with fleas
hard-bitten
If you describe someone as hard-bitten , you are critical of them because they do not show much emotion or have much sympathy for other people, usually because they have experienced many unpleasant things.
bite back
If you bite back a feeling or something that you were going to say , you stop yourself from expressing it.
crib-biting
a harmful habit of horses in which the animal leans on the manger or seizes it with the teeth and swallows a gulp of air
be bitten by the bug
to become very enthusiastic about something, and start doing it a lot
once bitten, twice shy
You say ' once bitten , twice shy ' when you want to indicate that someone will not do something a second time because they had a bad experience the first time they did it.