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pitted |
3 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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pitted \Pit"ted\ (-t[e^]d), 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: pitted adj : pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb) [syn: {alveolate}, {faveolate}, {cavitied}, {honeycombed}]
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