pitching

Verb (1)

pitch (third-person singular simple present pitches, present participle pitching, simple past and past participle pitched)

1. To cover or smear with pitch.
   • “Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.”1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 6:14
2. To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
   • 1704 (published), year written unknown, John Dryden, On the Death of Amyntas
     Soon he found / The welkin pitch'd with sullen clouds.

Verb (2)

pitch (third-person singular simple present pitches, present participle pitching, simple past and past participle pitched or (obsolete) pight)

1. (transitive) To throw.
   • He pitched the horseshoe.

   Synonyms:

   fling, hurl, bung, cast, chuck, chunk, cook, dash, dump, feck

2. (intransitive, transitive) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
   • The hurler pitched a curveball.
3. (intransitive) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
   • Bob pitches today.
4. (transitive) To throw away; discard.
   • He pitched the candy wrapper.

   Synonyms:

   cast aside, throw away, junk, 86, bin, can, cast off, cast away, chuck, chuck away

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