pit
verb/pɪt/
/pɪt/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they pit | /pɪt/ /pɪt/ |
| he / she / it pits | /pɪts/ /pɪts/ |
| past simple pitted | /ˈpɪtɪd/ /ˈpɪtɪd/ |
| past participle pitted | /ˈpɪtɪd/ /ˈpɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form pitting | /ˈpɪtɪŋ/ /ˈpɪtɪŋ/ |
- to make marks or holes on the surface of something
- pit something Smallpox scars had pitted his face.
- be pitted with something The surface of the moon is pitted with craters.
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- (British English also stone)pit something to remove the stone from the inside of a fruit
- pitted olives
make holes
fruit
Word Origin, verb sense 1 Old English pytt, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch put and German Pfütze, based on Latin puteus ‘well, shaft’. noun sense 5 mid 19th cent.: apparently from Dutch; related to pith.
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