pit
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3.6
- noun
- /pɪt/
- She camouflaged the pit with branches overlaid with sod.
- a fire pit
- an open pit
- dig a pit
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- She camouflaged the pit with branches overlaid with sod.
- But to the humans, the pit and it's snow geese might help us.
- What they did find was that the pits had the wrong shape.
- The battleground is Sand pit Tough.
- So he'll literally go in a slurry pit and masturbate.
- It was in haste moved to this pit.
Examples
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Darkened circles mark the locations of hundreds of fire pits and ancient hearths.
Academic text (2008) -
The entire group is gathered in a sort of pit on a hard concrete floor.
Fiction book (1991) -
It's nothing but a sand pit now.
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So there's a huge pit in this final chamber.
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We need a spade if we're gonna dig a pit.
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The Georgia Tech team showed that the quarry pit alone would provide sufficient water for operations.
Academic text (1999) -
Each house appears to have had garbage pits close by, promising unique insights into daily village life.
Academic text (2008) -
The bulldozer plunges nose first into an unseen pit dug just beneath the surface!
Fiction book (1990) -
The construction crew dug a deep pit to extract minerals from the ground.
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Children love to play in the sand pit at the park.
Synonyms
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1.0
An opening in something, often made by people or nature
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3.2
A large bowl-shaped hole in the ground made by a meteor or volcano
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4.9
An open place in the ground where people remove stone
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6.2
A small hole dug in the ground for a soldier to hide in during battle
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5.7
A hole in the ground made when the surface collapses, often in limestone areas
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3.9
A hollow space in the ground or a solid object
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5.3
A low area of land that forms a hollow
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5.4
A hole in the ground made by digging, often for building or finding old things
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2.4
A low place in the ground where animals drink water
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3.6
A hole in the ground where people dig gravel for building
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7.6
A place with thick sticky black oil that traps animals and preserves their bones
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2.4
A place in the ground where people burn wood or charcoal to cook meat
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3.7
A hole dug in the ground to hold a fence post
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1.3
A hole in the ground filled with mud
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2.8
A hole dug in the ground to hold a fence post
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8.1
A hole that people dig to take soil or gravel for building work
A large hole in sandy ground where people take sand for building
A large hole in the ground where people dig out chalk
A large open hole in the ground where people take stone for building
A place where people dig coal from the ground
A hole that forms when wood decays or people dig the ground
A deep hole at a volcano with hot, glowing lava at the bottom
Idioms
Compounds
A strong, muscular dog breed from the United States with a short coat and high energy
- Specialized
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8.6
A shelter dug partly into the ground with a roof to live in or keep animals
- Specialized
1
9.9
A metal sphere with plutonium that starts a nuclear explosion when squeezed by explosives
- Specialized
A loose mix of small stones and sand taken from a gravel pit and used as is
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Pit began in old English as a simple 'hole' in the ground, and that picture of a dug hole helps explain its use for mines, traps, and large excavations.