Definitions for pitted

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pitted pit·ted

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IPA: /ˈpɪt ɪd/

Pitted is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in pitted (deiptt).

Definitions for pitted

noun

1. a naturally formed or excavated hole or cavity in the ground:
2. a covered or concealed excavation in the ground, serving as a trap.
3. Mining. an excavation made in exploring for or removing a mineral deposit, as by open-cut methods. the shaft of a coal mine. the mine itself.
4. the abode of evil spirits and lost souls; hell:
5. the pits, Slang. an extremely unpleasant, boring, or depressing place, condition, person, etc.; the absolute worst:
6. a hollow or indentation in a surface:
7. a natural hollow or depression in the body:
8. pits, Informal. the armpits:
9. a small, depressed scar, as one of those left on the skin after smallpox or chicken pox.
10. an enclosure, usually below the level of the spectators, as for staging fights between dogs, cocks, or, formerly, bears.
11. (in a commodity exchange) a part of the floor of the exchange where trading in a particular commodity takes place:
12. Architecture. all that part of the main floor of a theater behind the musicians. British. the main floor of a theater behind the stalls. orchestra (def 2a).
13. (in a hoistway) a space below the level of the lowest floor served.
14. Auto Racing. an area at the side of a track, for servicing and refueling the cars.
15. Bowling. the sunken area of a bowling alley behind the pins, for the placement or recovery of pins that have been knocked down.
16. Track. the area forward of the takeoff point in a jumping event, as the broad jump or pole vault, that is filled with sawdust or soft earth to lessen the force of the jumper's landing.
17. the area or room of a casino containing gambling tables.
18. the stone of a fruit, as of a cherry, peach, or plum.

adjective

1. marked or scarred with pits:
2. (of fruit) having the pit removed:

verb (used with object)

1. to mark or indent with pits or depressions:
2. to scar with pockmarks:
3. to place or bury in a pit, as for storage.
4. to set in opposition or combat, as one against another.
5. to put (animals) in a pit or enclosure for fighting.
6. to remove the pit from (a fruit or fruits):

verb (used without object)

1. to become marked with pits or depressions.
2. (of body tissue) to retain temporarily a mark of pressure, as by a finger, instrument, etc.

Origin of pitted

before 1050; Old English pytted (not found in ME); see pit¹, -ed³

Examples for pitted

It has the pitted surface that is supposed by the faithful to be characteristic of meteorites.

pitted against the junior team, as they were, it was most annoying.

Solidarity is harder, and people are pitted against one another.

"Better her face should be pitted with smallpox than bring her to the pit of hell," said Csar.

In California, tourists have been pitted against career foragers, causing problems for wild mushrooms and abalone.

Haven is not the first school that has pitted students versus the administration over spandex.

It was all naked rock, ridged and pitted, and everywhere yellow-tinged.

And so again and again he pitted his own radiant confidence against some equal and opposite force.

His face is gory and pitted with deep shrapnel wounds and his injured hands drip blood on the rumpled woolen blankets.

They formed a ghastly sight when they were pitted in what proved to be the final clash.