"forebite" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From fore- + bite (verb).",
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    {
      "form": "forebites",
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        "present",
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        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "forebiting",
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      "form": "forebit",
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      "form": "forebitten",
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        "participle",
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          "word": "forebit"
        },
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          "word": "forebiting"
        },
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          "word": "forebitten"
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          "ref": "1897, Henry Ward Beecher, The original Plymouth pulpit",
          "text": "You may backbite him a little, but you will not forebite him at all.",
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        "To bite beforehand or in front."
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        "(transitive) To bite beforehand or in front."
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  "word": "forebite"
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          "ref": "1963, Acta chirurgiae plasticae - Page 299",
          "text": "After orthodontic widening of right half and repair of forebite (c, d)."
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          "ref": "1977, Pure-bred Dogs, American Kennel Gazette, Volume 94, Part 4 - Page 88",
          "text": "[…] forebite is almost an eight inch off and at this age not apt to improve.",
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        "A condition where the (front) teeth are set too far forward in the mouth."
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    {
      "word": "forebit"
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    {
      "word": "forebiting"
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      "word": "forebitten"
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    {
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      "form": "forebit",
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      "form": "forebitten",
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          "text": "You may backbite him a little, but you will not forebite him at all.",
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      ],
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        "To bite beforehand or in front."
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        "(transitive) To bite beforehand or in front."
      ],
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  "word": "forebite"
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        },
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        "A condition where the (front) teeth are set too far forward in the mouth."
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