عاضت doesn't appear in Hans Wehr's Modern Standard Arabic dictionary, but Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon has an entry for it. Select the entry below for the full classical Arabic definition.

• عَاضَّتِ Form 3

  3 عَاضَّتِ الدَّوَابُّ ذ , (K, * TA,) inf. n. عِضَاضٌ (S, K) and مُعَاضَّةٌ, (S,) The beasts bit one another. (S, * K, * TA.) And in like manner you say, هُمَا They two bite each other. (S.) -b2- [Hence the saying,] عَاض…

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