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pitting

verb

Meaning

  1. To make pits in; to mark with little hollows.
  2. To put (an animal) into a pit for fighting.
  3. To bring (something) into opposition with something else.
  4. To return to the pits during a race for refuelling, tyre changes, repairs etc.
  5. To remove the stone from a stone fruit or the shell from a drupe.
  6. The formation of pits on a surface because of corrosion.
  7. The digging of a pit.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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