pitting

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of pit. Use this -ing form for an action happening now or as the name of the activity.

   The trainer keeps pitting the two boxers against each other in practice.

   Pitting cherries by hand takes the whole afternoon.

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2. 2
   noununcountable

   Tiny holes that form on a metal surface as rust or chemicals eat into it.

   Like little holes slowly eaten into metal, the way dripping water can wear small dips into a rock.

   The old pipe showed heavy pitting after years buried underground.

   Salt on winter roads can cause pitting on a car's metal body.

3. 3
   noununcountable

   The work of digging a large, deep hole in the ground.

   Like digging a deep hole in the ground to bury or store things.

   The pitting of the field for grain storage took the villagers several days.

   Careful pitting let the team reach the buried layers without damaging them.

   Similardigging, excavation

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