Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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.
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.
Source : WordNet®
pitted
adj : pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb) [syn: {alveolate},
{faveolate}, {cavitied}, {honeycombed}]
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}]
[also: {pitting}, {pitted}]
pit
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
See {pit}