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ˈbɪt nbit·ten

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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Bittenparticip. pass.

    Etymology: from to bite; which see.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Bitten

    of Bite

  2. Bitten

    p. p. of Bite

  3. Bittenadjective

    terminating abruptly, as if bitten off; premorse

Wikidata

  1. Bitten

    Bitten, a fantasy novel published in 2001, is the first book in the Women of the Otherworld series. It is Canadian author Kelley Armstrong's first novel.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. BITTEN

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Bitten is ranked #141140 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Bitten surname appeared 118 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Bitten.

    62.7% or 74 total occurrences were White.
    34.7% or 41 total occurrences were Black.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of bitten in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of bitten in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of bitten in a Sentence

  1. Coast Guard:

    The man had reportedly been untangling fishing nets from the vessel's propeller when he fell overboard and was bitten by a shark of an unknown size and species.

  2. Phil Lounibos:

    What Oxitec is trying to spin is that it's highly improbable that there will be negative consequences of this foreign DNA entering someone that's bitten by an Oxitec mosquito, i'm on their side, in that consequences are highly unlikely. But to say that there's no genetically modified DNA that might get into a human, that's kind of a gray matter.

  3. Marine Biology Professor Christopher Lowe:

    Your chances of being bitten are kind of like your chances of winning the Powerball.

  4. Joseph Minott:

    It does not surprise me at this point the government - once bitten, twice shy - is not rushing to the rescue again.

  5. Nathan Sales:

    The administration is really leaning forward in encouraging people to leave because they simply don't want more headlines about how the administration failed a second time and left Americans stranded, part of the reason the White House is calling for Americans to leave now is because the administration is feeling snake-bitten by Afghanistan. The president told us that he was going to stay in country until we got every single American out. Obviously, that didn't happen, and we still have hundreds, maybe thousands of American citizens stranded behind enemy lines in Afghanistan.

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