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Webster 1828 Edition
Pitched
PITCH'ED
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Definition 2024
pitched
pitched
English
Verb
pitched
- simple past tense and past participle of pitch
Adjective
pitched (comparative more pitched, superlative most pitched)
- Having a slope.
- a pitched roof
- (not comparable) Having a specified tonal range.
- a high-pitched scream.
- (not comparable) Fought from predetermined positions at a specified time and place.
- a pitched battle
- (not comparable) Covered in pitch.
- Charles Lamb, The 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.
- Charles Lamb, The Essays of Elia
Derived terms
- high-pitched
- low-pitched
- pitched battle
- pitched roof