Pitched
//pɪt͡ʃt// adj, verb
adj, verb ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 simple past and past participle of pitch form-of, participle, past
Adjective
- 1 Having a slope, whether shallow, steep, or intermediate.
"a pitched roof"
- 2 Having a specified tonal range. not-comparable
"a high-pitched scream"
- 3 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.
"a pitched battle"
- 4 Covered in pitch. not-comparable
"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."
Adjective
- 1 set at a slant wordnet
- 2 (of sound) set to a certain pitch or key; usually used as a combining form wordnet
Example
More examples"Being pitched out into life is the best way of learning how to live."
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