pitched

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɪt͡ʃt/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪtʃt

Verb

pitched

1. simple past and past participle of pitch

Adjective

pitched (comparative more pitched, superlative most pitched)

1. Having a slope.

   a pitched roof

2. (not comparable) Having a specified tonal range.

   a high-pitched scream

3. (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

4. (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.

Derived terms

• fever-pitched
• high-pitched
• low-pitched
• pitched battle
• pitched market
• pitched roof