Usually means: Respond aggressively to an attack.
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  1. bite back: Merriam-Webster
  2. bite back: Collins English Dictionary
  3. bite back: Wiktionary
  4. Bite-Back, Bite Back (album), Bite Back: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. bite back: TheFreeDictionary.com
  6. bite back: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. bite back: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bite back: Medical dictionary

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  1. bite back: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (bite back)

▸ verb:  (intransitive) To retaliate.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To repress (an emotion or a response).

Similar:
bite, throw back, answer back, come back to bite, pay home, lash, bite off, shoot back, come back to haunt, snap, more...

Opposite:
retaliate, respond, reciprocate, counterattack

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Similar:
bite, throw back, answer back, come back to bite, pay home, lash, bite off, shoot back, come back to haunt, snap, more...

Opposite:
retaliate, respond, reciprocate, counterattack



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