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pitted
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pit \Pit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Pitting.]
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To place or put into a pit or hole.
They lived like beasts, and were pitted like beasts, tumbled into the grave.
--T. Grander. To mark with little hollows, as by various pustules; as, a face pitted by smallpox.
To introduce as an antagonist; to set forward for or in a contest; as, to pit one dog against another.
Pitted \Pit"ted\ (p[i^]t"t[e^]d), a.
Marked with little pits, as in smallpox. See Pit, v. t.,
2. (Bot.) Having minute thin spots; as, pitted ducts in the vascular parts of vegetable tissue.
Wiktionary
1 Having a surface marked by pits; pockmarked or alveolate 2 (context of fruit English) Having had the pits removed v
(en-past of: pit)
WordNet
adj. pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb) [syn: alveolate, faveolate, cavitied, honeycombed]
n. a sizeable hole (usually in the ground); "they dug a pit to bury the body" [syn: cavity]
a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression) [syn: fossa]
the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed; "you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking" [syn: stone, endocarp]
a trap in the form of a concealed hole [syn: pitfall]
a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate; "a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'" [syn: quarry, stone pit]
lowered area in front of a stage where an orchestra accompanies the performers [syn: orchestra pit]
a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it [syn: colliery]
v. set into opposition or rivalry; "let them match their best athletes against ours"; "pit a chess player against the Russian champion"; "He plays his two children off against each other" [syn: oppose, match, play off]
mark with a scar; "The skin disease scarred his face permanently" [syn: scar, mark, pock]
remove the pits from; "pit plums and cherries" [syn: stone]
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Usage examples of "pitted".
My power may have diminished, but I need no machine to amplify it, so great is my hate and disgust of you and your works, when pitted against your cold and soulless rationality.
For nearly a century, the shortage of legally dissectable bodies pitted the anatomist against the private citizen.
They sauntered down the hillside, Titek chattering happily and Aisha indulging him with polite and informative answers, pitted by only the occasional barbless bolt of sarcasm.
At this major crossroads was a gallows tree, a huge oak held together by brass hoops bolted around the pitted and barkless trunk it had been dead for the last ten years.
The bartender leaned back, sandwiching my Fizzz between his graybelted bulk and a pitted bulkhead.
The pitted iron hardware deep lilac in color, smeltered in some bloomery in Cadiz or Bristol and beaten out on a blackened anvil, good to last three hundred years against the sea.
Its smooth flows humped over one another, pitted everywhere with tiny craters.
Then I peeled, pitted, and mashed the plump avocados destined for my Holy Moly Guacamole.
The Constabulary, now almost wholly officered by Filipinos, became in effect a provocative body, pitted against the helpless Moro population.
The sharply-slanted fifty-foot segment of pitted steel offered no level terrain on which to land, and the shifting wind from the ocean struck the paravane like a heavy fist, tipping the craft at dangerous angles.
The surfaces themselves were pitted and rough from melting and refreezing unevenly over the years, and a few small tenacious plants had actually taken root on the ice.
The room also sported a pitted mirror, bad particleboard furniture and a serigraph of a constipated duck in a poisoned lake.
Everywhere the ground was pitted with deep holes, capable of sheltering from fifteen to twenty men.
Just an old, pitted, wrought-iron spikelet, cleverly encased in a crystal tube, the whole then set in a gold brooch and surrounded by small pigeon-blood rubies.
Ryan unlimbered the Steyr and chambered a round, when the night split apart with a thunderous discharge, a foot-long lance of flame reaching out from the pitted maw of the Colt Python held in the bloody hands of a grim-faced Jak Lauren.