English edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /pɪt͡ʃt/
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  • Rhymes: -ɪtʃt

Verb edit

pitched

  1. simple past and past participle of pitch

Adjective edit

pitched (comparative more pitched, superlative most pitched)

  1. Having a slope.
  2. (not comparable) Having a specified tonal range.
    a high-pitched scream
  3. (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
  4. (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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