bite back (at sb/sth)
— phrasal verb with bite uk/baɪt/us/baɪt/verb bit, bitten
to react angrily, especially to someone who has done something unpleasant to you:
A youth club has bitten back at vandals by covering its roof with razor-sharp security wire.
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Reacting and responding
- backlash
- bite
- chain reaction
- counteract
- countermeasure
- greet
- knob
- reactive
- recoil
- reflexively
- respond
- response
- responsive
- rise
- rise to the occasion/challenge idiom
- sensitive
- shock wave
- strike
- wake (sb) up
- worm
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