What is the meaning of the word "pit"?
Definitions:
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a sizeable hole (usually in the ground)
noun
- they dug a pit to bury the body
- they dug a pit to bury the body
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a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate noun
- a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'
- a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'
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remove the pits from verb
- pit plums and cherries
- pit plums and cherries
Synonyms:
- cavity
- colliery
- fossa
- infernal region
- mark
- match
- nether region
- oppose
- orchestra pit
- perdition
- pitfall
- play off
- quarry
- stone
NearBy Words:
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- pitfall
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- pithecanthropus
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- pithily
- pithiness
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- pitter-patter
- pittidae
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- pittsburgh
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- pitty-pat
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- pituitary
- pituophis
- pity
- pityingly
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- pityriasis
- pityrogramma