simple past tense and past participle of bait

Malicious encouragement of suicide.

To engage in race baiting.

(US) The (ad hominem) practice of accusing someone of being a communist, socialist or anarchist with the intention of discrediting his or her political views.

(fishing) a box used to keep bait / A small box, in which poison is kept, with space for small animals e.g. rats to eat from.

(film) A film or films perceived to have been produced at least partially in order to be nominated for, and hopefully win, an Academy Award.

(idiomatic) To give up on something in order to pursue something else. / (literally) To chop up fish bait for use.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cut bait

present participle of cut bait

(in India and the Middle East) The harassment of women, especially foreign, or dressed as such, by groups of men.