Answer to "Sinks one's teeth into" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word BITES , but the solution may also be SAWS UP which is one of the most recent solution (2025 in New York Times).

Sinks one's teeth into crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
BITES	80 %	5
SAWS UP	20 %	7

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Sinks one's teeth into

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• undershot
• engage
• mouth
• mouthing
• wind
• overbite
• bridge
• catabolism
• jag
• cleavage
• gap
• ident

Crossword Answer definitions

BITES noun

1. The act of biting.
2. The wound left behind after having been bitten.
3. The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
4. A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
5. Something unpleasant.
6. An act of plagiarism.
7. A small meal or snack.
8. Aggression
9. The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
10. A cheat; a trick; a fraud.
11. A sharper; one who cheats.
12. A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
13. A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.

BITES verb

1. To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
2. To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
3. To attack with the teeth.
4. To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
5. To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
6. To have significant effect, often negative.
7. (of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
8. To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
9. (of an insect) To sting.
10. To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
11. (sometimes figurative) To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.
12. To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
13. To take or keep a firm hold.
14. To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
15. To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
16. To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
17. To plagiarize, to imitate.
18. To deceive or defraud; to take in.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

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More clues leading to the result BITES

• Calls, to an advertiser
• Champs
• Quick meals
• Stings
• Stings like a bee
• Mosquito marks
• Fishermen's hopes
• Vampire attacks
• Anglers' hopes
• Takes the hook

More clues leading to the result SAWS UP

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