Basic Guidelines For English Spellings
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noun
1‘a rectangular pit dug in the ground’
SYNONYMS
hole, ditch, trench, trough, hollow, shaft, mineshaft, excavation, cavity, pothole, rut
abyss, chasm, gulf, crater
2‘controversy over plans for pit closures’
SYNONYMS
coal mine, colliery, quarry, workings, diggings
3‘the ugly pits stood out on her skin’
SYNONYMS
pockmark, pock, mark, hollow, indentation, depression, dent, dint, concavity, dimple
verb
1‘his skin had been pitted by acne’
SYNONYMS
mark, pockmark, scar, blemish, disfigure
2‘rain poured down, pitting the bare earth’
SYNONYMS
make holes in, make hollows in, hole, dent, indent, depress, dint, pothole
noun
1‘cherry pits’
SYNONYMS
stone, pip, seed
Phrases
- the pits
‘this place really is the pits’
SYNONYMS
the worst, the lowest of the low
rock-bottom, extremely bad, awful, terrible, dreadful, wretched, unspeakable, deplorable
informal appalling, lousy, abysmal, dire
British informal chronic, grotty, pants, a load of pants
‘a chance to pit your wits against the world champions’
SYNONYMS
set against, match against, put in opposition to, put in competition with, measure against
compete against, compete with, contend with, vie with, grapple with, wrestle with
informal pitch against
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