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Pit, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pitted p. pr. & vb. n. Pitting.]
1. To place or put into a pit or hole.
They lived like beasts, and were pitted like beasts, tumbled into the grave. --T. Grander.
2. To mark with little hollows, as by various pustules; as, a face pitted by smallpox.
3. To introduce as an antagonist; to set forward for or in a contest; as, to pit one dog against another.
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Pit·ted a.
1. Marked with little pits, as in smallpox. See Pit, v. t., 2.
2. Bot. Having minute thin spots; as, pitted ducts in the vascular parts of vegetable tissue.
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pit
n 1: a sizeable hole (usually in the ground); "they dug a pit to
bury the body" [syn: cavity]
2: a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical
depression) [syn: fossa]
3: 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]
4: a trap in the form of a concealed hole [syn: pitfall]
5: a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate; "a
British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'" [syn: quarry,
stone pit]
6: lowered area in front of a stage where an orchestra
accompanies the performers [syn: orchestra pit]
7: a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings
and equipment connected with it [syn: colliery]
v 1: 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]
2: mark with a scar; "The skin disease scarred his face
permanently" [syn: scar, mark, pock]
3: remove the pits from; "pit plums and cherries" [syn: stone]
[also: pitting, pitted]
pitted
adj : pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb) [syn: alveolate,
faveolate, cavitied, honeycombed]