verb
- Set into opposition or rivalry.
- usage: "let them match their best athletes against ours"; "pit a chess player against the Russian champion"; "He plays his two children off against each other"
- Mark with a scar.
- usage: "The skin disease scarred his face permanently"
- Remove the pits from.
- usage: "pit plums and cherries"
adjective
- Pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb. ).
- synonyms: alveolate, faveolate, cavitied, honeycombed
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