morder

transitive verb

1. to bite (con los dientes)

2. to eat into (gastar)

3. to buy off (informal) (sobornar) (Carib, Mexican Spanish)

intransitive verb

4. to bite

salúdala, que no muerde (informal) you can say hello to her, she doesn't bite
está que muerde (informal) he's hopping mad

morderse

pronominal verb

also:

morder

transitive verb

1 (con los dientes) to bite

2 (corroer) (Química) to corrode; eat away; [+recursos] to eat into;

3 (Mecánica) [+embrague] to catch

4 (Centroamérica) (México) (exigir soborno) to take a bribe from

5 (México) (estafar) to cheat

6 (denigrar) to gossip about; run down

7 (reconocer) to recognize

intransitive verb

to bite

está que muerde he's hopping mad

estoy que muerdo

pronominal verb

morderse to bite

morderse las uñas to bite one's nails

Generalmente cuando los niños están en edad escolar, comienza a [morderse las uñas.]

morderse la lengua to bite one's tongue

Verb Conjugations for morder

Gerund: mordiendo

The irregular conjugations of this verb are in red.

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