Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Marked by pits.
- adj. Having the pit removed: pitted dates.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Marked thickly with pits or small depressions: as, a face pitted by smallpox; specifically, in botany, having pits or punctations, as the walls of many cells; in zoology, having many punctations, as a surface; foveolate; areolate.
- In leather manufacturing, said of skins having little spots or holes in the grain which mark but do not pierce it. They are caused by decomposition or sometimes by the action of salt.
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of pit.
- adj. Having a surface marked by pits; pockmarked or alveolate
- adj. of fruit Having had the pits removed
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Marked with little pits, as in smallpox. See pit, v. t., 2.
- adj. (Bot.) Having minute thin spots.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb)
Examples
“But he was not "cast in nature's finest mould," like Washington, being long favored, with a nose to match; his whole face pitted from the effects of small pox while in the army.”
“On bears vs tigers ... in pitted fights of big cats vs bears, the bears always come off best, even so when the bear is one of the smaller species (e.g. Asiatic black bear).”
“Sumter, although somewhat pitted, is as strong as ever.”
“It will be his word pitted against the other journalist with the defense praying like hell that the word of Woodward will prevail oaver these lesser peons.”
Think Progress » Woodward Reveals Important Clues About White House Smear Campaign
“And, considering the path to their titles pitted them against highly ranked wrestlers from various classifications, that's no pedestrian achievement.”
“We say "pitted" loosely here, because the LLWS is a collegial affair, and each contest must be concluded by dusty handshakes.”
“Thus, a recent article in the daily Javan entitled "Post-Zionism and the Identity Crisis in Israel" pitted "extremist Jews," i.e., nationalists and settlers, against "religious Jews," i.e., ultra-Orthodox non-nationalists.”
“The term "pitted" refers to the numerous kettle ponds dotting the landscape.”
Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Massachusetts
“Consider the idea that these Russian dogs are being tested and not "pitted" for its own sake.”
“So I literally -- I mean there was, this factory we worked in was different racial factions all kind of pitted against each other.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘pitted’.
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Beautiful and Ugly
Beautiful, attractive, well-formed
Ugly, unattractive, malformedadorable, alluring, angelic, appealing, appetizing, attractive, beaming, beauteous, beautiful, becoming, beguiling, bewitching and 180 more...
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A Galimafrée of Plant Anatomy & Morph...
A hodgepodge, jumble, jambalaya, *gallimaufry, circus and tent revival of plant anatomy and morphology terms and phrases - its a big tent, and no tickets are required.
*array, collecti...naked bud, leaf blade, brochidodromous, serrate, cork cambium, rhizomatous, flower stalk, deciduous sepal, petal, whorl, nectar gland, stamen and 1348 more...
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ewer, lace, grenadine, wick, haruspex, augur, distal, proximal, supine, labyrinthine, rivers, monongahela and 176 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Industrial
electrodeposition, photovoltaic, superconductivity, photoelectrochemical, gearhead, pig iron, cogeneration, capacitor, blast furnace slag, coaxial, daisy chaining, commutator and 93 more...
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help list
bestow, moonlit, grace, twas, heart filled, noble, alas, dure, bequeath, thirsty, ive, alive and 48 more...
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perspicacious, pronoia, widdershins, clematis, toque, gravid, koan, teak, soporific, flagellum, pitted, loam and 14 more...
Tweets
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ruzuzu "In leather manufacturing, said of skins having little spots or holes in the grain which mark but do not pierce it. They are caused by decomposition or sometimes by the action of salt." --CD&C May 11, 2012
Prolagus More on shelled. Dec 9, 2010
myth I fear the world has another contronym. Mar 27, 2009
sionnach Let's not forget the utility of this word in its verb form, e.g.
The smackdown pitted Connecticut Contessa Martha "the Shiv" Stewart against plummy-vowelled Julia "the Lush" Child in a sudden-death soufflé bakeoff. Commentators cried foul when Julia's impromptu drunken yodelling at a key moment when Martha opened the oven door to check on progress was deemed to have constituted "improper interference".
Video of the event has been one of You-Tube's alltime top favorites, according to site statistics. Mar 27, 2009
Prolagus I think of that moon whenever I take the train. Mar 25, 2009
reesetee I think of that moon whenever my right eye hurts. Mar 25, 2009
chained_bear I think of that moon whenever I hear music from "Moulin Rouge." *grins*
And I simply try not to think of Edward James Olmos... Mar 25, 2009
sionnach pitted could also apply to this image:
Mar 25, 2009
or to the face of Edward James Olmos:
chained_bear *snort* Mar 25, 2009
sionnach Random wordie user: "Witchbe, you may find it more useful to place that bilby ear directly on the cauldron page, and not on the list".
Witchbe: Eh? What's that. Sorry, I'm new here. I was just doing the obvious thing, you know, following the site design's default.
Chorus of wordie users: Sigh Mar 25, 2009
sionnach Witchbe:
Thrice the rinded cat hath mewed!
Thrice, and once the hedge-pig whined!
From high aloft his ivy-tuft.
Chained Bear cries, Tis time! Tis Time!
Ear of Bilby, marsupial frisky
Add unto a noggin o' whiskey
Tappen of the northern bear
Tail of fox - you wouldn't dare
Now to make our potion grow
Hand gestures by a Brooklyn pro.
Hubble, bubble etc....
Mar 25, 2009
bilby rinded - what?
cored - past tense of core, verb, to remove the core of something. Mar 25, 2009
Prolagus It only makes sense in "half-pitted" :) Mar 25, 2009
chained_bear I have always wondered that. I have to look twice at my olive jars, and think really hard about it: "Now, does 'pitted' mean it still has the pits in it...?"
Then I have to find someone with more malleable digits, not to say an opposable thumb, to open them for me. Mar 25, 2009
Prolagus If rinded means "having a rind", and cored means "having a core" (and so on), why in the world do you let this word mean "having the pit removed"?!
(Rhetorical) Mar 25, 2009