pit
pit is a 3-letter English word with 31 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A large cavity or hole in the ground, either natural or artificial; a cavity in the surface of a body; an indentation. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. A large cavity or hole in the ground, either natural or artificial; a cavity in the surface of a body; an indentation
- noun. The shaft of a coal mine; a coal pit.
- noun. A large hole in the ground from which material is dug or quarried; as, a stone pit; a gravel pit; or in which material is made by burning; as, a lime pit; a charcoal pit.
- noun. A vat sunk in the ground; as, a tan pit.
- noun. Any abyss; especially, the grave, or hades.
- noun. A covered deep hole for entrapping wild beasts; a pitfall; hence, a trap; a snare. Also used figuratively.
- noun. A depression or hollow in the surface of the human body
- noun. The hollow place under the shoulder or arm; the axilla, or armpit.
- noun. See Pit of the stomach (below).
- noun. The indentation or mark left by a pustule, as in smallpox.
- noun. Formerly, that part of a theater, on the floor of the house, below the level of the stage and behind the orchestra; now, in England, commonly the part behind the stalls; in the United States, the parquet; also, the occupants of such a part of a theater.
- noun. An inclosed area into which gamecocks, dogs, and other animals are brought to fight, or where dogs are trained to kill rats.
- noun. The endocarp of a drupe, and its contained seed or seeds; a stone; as, a peach pit; a cherry pit, etc.
- noun. A depression or thin spot in the wall of a duct.
- transitive verb. To place or put into a pit or hole.
- transitive verb. To mark with little hollows, as by various pustules; as, a face pitted by smallpox.
- transitive verb. To introduce as an antagonist; to set forward for or in a contest; as, to pit one dog against another.
- noun. a workplace consisting of a coal mine plus all the buildings and equipment connected with it
- noun. lowered area in front of a stage where an orchestra accompanies the performers
- noun. a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate
"a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'"
- noun. a trap in the form of a concealed hole
- noun. (auto racing) an area at the side of a racetrack where the race cars are serviced and refueled
- noun. (commodity exchange) the part of the floor of a commodity exchange where trading in a particular commodity is carried on
- noun. an enclosure in which animals are made to fight
- noun. (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment- John Milton-Dr. Johnson
"Hurl'd headlong...To bottomless perdition, there to dwell"
"a demon from the depths of the pit"
- noun. a sizeable hole (usually in the ground)
"they dug a pit to bury the body"
- noun. the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed
"you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking"
- noun. a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression)
- verb. remove the pits from
"pit plums and cherries"
- verb. set into opposition or rivalry
"let them match their best athletes against ours"
"pit a chess player against the Russian champion"
- verb. mark with a scar
"The skin disease scarred his face permanently"
Synonyms
colliery, quarry, pitfall, hell, inferno, perdition, cavity, endocarp, stone, fossa, match, oppose, mark, pock, scar
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in pit:
Common word forms
pits, pitted, pitter, pitless, pitting
Words from these letters
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