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pit one's wits

pit one's wits verb: to engage in a test of mental skill.

Verb

pit one's wits (third-person singular simple present pits one's wits, present participle pitting one's wits, simple past and past participle pitted one's wits)

  1. (often) To engage in a test of mental skill.
    • We must pit our wits against our enemy and find a way to defeat him.

Forms of pit one's wits

third-person singular presentpits one's wits
present participlepitting one's wits
past participlepitted one's wits
pastpitted one's wits

Questions about pit one's wits

What does pit one's wits mean?
Pit one's wits means to engage in a test of mental skill.
What part of speech is pit one's wits?
Pit one's wits is a verb.
What is the past tense of pit one's wits?
The past tense of pit one's wits is pitted one's wits.

Words near pit one's wits in the dictionary

  1. pit nutter
  2. pit nutters
  3. pit of despair
  4. pit of the stomach
  5. Pit of Voles
  6. pit one's wits
  7. pit out
  8. pit ponies
  9. pit pony
  10. pit prop
  11. pit props

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