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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pit  \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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  pitting 
  n  :  the  formation  of  small  pits  in  a  surface  as  a  consequence  of 
  corrosion  [syn:  {roughness},  {indentation}] 




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