Meaning

A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap..

Definitions by Sense

1. A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
2. A dark, extremely viscous material still remaining after distilling crude oil or natural tar.
3. (geology) Pitchstone.
4. To cover or smear with pitch.
5. To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
6. Very dark black; pitch-black.
7. (of a black color) Intense, deep, dark.
8. A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.

Example Sentences

It is hard to get this pitch off my hand.

Near-synonyms: tar, coal tar, asphalt, bitumen

They put pitch on the mast to protect it.

The barrel was sealed with pitch.

It was pitch black because there was no moon.

“Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.”

1704 (published), year written unknown, John Dryden, On the Death of Amyntas Soon he found / The welkin pitch'd with sullen clouds.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:pitch.

Word Forms

• pitches
• pitching
• pitched
• pitcher
• pitchest
• pight

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Use pitch when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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