pitted Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb set into opposition or rivalry
    oppose; play off; pit; match.
    • let them match their best athletes against ours
    • pit a chess player against the Russian champion
    • He plays his two children off against each other
  2. verb mark with a scar
    scar; pit; pock; mark.
    • The skin disease scarred his face permanently
  3. verb remove the pits from
    stone; pit.
    • pit plums and cherries
  4. adjective satellite pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb)
    cavitied; faveolate; honeycombed; alveolate.

WordNet

Pit"ted adjective
Definitions
  1. Marked with little pits, as in smallpox. See Pit, v. t., 2.
  2. (Bot.) Having minute thin spots; as, pitted ducts in the vascular parts of vegetable tissue.

Webster 1913