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:

morderse la lengua/las uñas to bite one's tongue/nails

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

Collins Complete Spanish Electronic Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers 2011

'muerda' in our machine translators

Verb Conjugations for morder

Gerund: mordiendo

Participle: mordido

The irregular conjugations of this verb are in red.

Indicative

	Present	Preterit	Imperfect	Conditional	Future
yo	muerdo	mordí	mordía	mordería	morderé
tú	muerdes	mordiste	mordías	morderías	morderás
él/ella/Ud.	muerde	mordió	mordía	mordería	morderá
nosotros	mordemos	mordimos	mordíamos	morderíamos	morderemos
vosotros	mordéis	mordisteis	mordíais	morderíais	morderéis
ellos/ellas/Uds.	muerden	mordieron	mordían	morderían	morderán

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