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English
Pronunciation
Verb
pitched
- simple past and past participle of pitch
Adjective
pitched (comparative more pitched, superlative most pitched)
- Having a slope.
- (not comparable) Having a specified tonal range.
- (of a battle, fight, etc) Fought at a particular place and time, at which opposing forces anticipate and commit to fighting; (later especially) involving sustained, intense military (or by extension, political, legal etc.) fighting.
nowhere was the battle more pitched than in Ocean City, where protestors maintained a constant picket around city hall
- (not comparable) Covered in pitch.
1823, Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia:He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter-of-a-penny loaf — our crug — moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.
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