- 1pit something to make marks or holes on the surface of something The surface of the moon is pitted with craters. Smallpox scars had pitted his face.
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fruit - 2pit something to remove the hard seed from the inside of a fruit pitted olives Phrasal Verbspit against
pit
verbNAmE//pɪt//
[usually passive]Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they pit he / she / it pits
past simple pitted
-ing form pitting
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