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{ "forms": [ { "form": "bites back", "tags": [ "present", "singular", "third-person" ] }, { "form": "biting back", "tags": [ "participle", "present" ] }, { "form": "bit back", "tags": [ "past" ] }, { "form": "bitten back", "tags": [ "participle", "past" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "*", "2": "*", "3": "bit back", "4": "bitten back" }, "expansion": "bite back (third-person singular simple present bites back, present participle biting back, simple past bit back, past participle bitten back)", "name": "en-verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [], "glosses": [ "To retaliate." ], "id": "en-bite_back-en-verb-7t9SaDXf", "links": [ [ "retaliate", "retaliate" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(intransitive) To retaliate." ], "tags": [ "intransitive" ] }, { "categories": [ { "_dis": "39 61", "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w+disamb" }, { "_dis": "18 82", "kind": "other", "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (back)", "parents": [], "source": "w+disamb" } ], "examples": [ { "text": "He bit back his anger and managed a courteous reply.", "type": "example" }, { "ref": "1971, The Who (lyrics and music), “Behind Blue Eyes”, in Who's Next", "text": "No one bites back as hard on their anger / None of my pain and woe / Can show through", "type": "quotation" } ], "glosses": [ "To repress (an emotion or a response)." ], "id": "en-bite_back-en-verb-f8dZSNy6", "links": [ [ "repress", "repress" ] ], "raw_glosses": [ "(transitive) To repress (an emotion or a response)." ], "tags": [ "transitive" ] } ], "word": "bite back" }
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