Having been grabbed or pierced by teeth; marked by bite marks or the effects of being bitten.
Past participle of 'bite,' from Old English 'bitan,' which has roots in Proto-Indo-European languages. The word has remained remarkably stable across thousands of years of language evolution.
The word 'bite' is so old it appears in nearly identical forms across languages from Sanskrit to English—'bite,' 'biten,' 'biti'—showing that humans have always had a word for this action because teeth are ancient and universal.
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