| 单词 | bite asunder | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasbite asunder  b.  with adv. compl.  to bite away or off: to remove or detach by biting.  to bite through,  bite asunder,  bite in two, etc.: to divide by biting.  to bite back: to restrain (speech) by biting the lips. ΚΠ a1325						 (c1250)						    Gen. & Exod. 		(1968)	 l. 2926  				Here aldre heuedes he of bot. c1374    Chaucer tr.  Boethius De Consol. Philos.  ii. vi. 53  				Þis free man boot of hys owen tunge, and cast it in þe visage of þilke woode tyraunte. a1464    J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. 		(Cambr. Gg.4.12)	 		(1983)	 138  				His hed was bityn fro þe body. c1500    Lyfe Roberte Deuyll 155 in  W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. 		(1864)	 I. 225  				Hys teeth grewe so peryllousslye, That the norysshe nypples he bote a waye. a1529    J. Skelton Phyllyp Sparowe 		(?1545)	 sig. A.viiiv,  				The selfe same hounde..Myght byte asoudre thy throte. 1861    E. Waugh Birtle Carter's Tale 11  				His wife bote her tung i' two.]			 1871    ‘G. Eliot’ Armgart ii, in  Macmillan's Mag. July 169  				Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through. 1881    C. E. L. Riddell Senior Partner II. xi. 221  				Hot and strong was the reply which rose to Robert's lips, but he bit it back. 1923    ‘J. Sutherland’ Garland of Olive xxv,  				Hunt bit back his sharply released breath. < as lemmas  | 
	
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