pitched
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɪt͡ʃt/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪtʃt
Verb
pitched
- simple past tense and past participle of pitch
Adjective
pitched (comparative more pitched, superlative most pitched)
- Having a slope.
- a pitched roof
- (not comparable) Having a specified tonal range.
- a high-pitched scream
- (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.
- a pitched battle
- nowhere was the battle more pitched than in Ocean City, where protestors maintained a constant picket around city hall
- (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.
- 1823, Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia
Derived terms
- high-pitched
- low-pitched
- pitched battle
- pitched roof