Reference > American Heritage® > Roget’s > II: The New Thesaurus
  PREVIOUS NEXT  
CONTENTS · GUIDE · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
   Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition.  1995.
 

pit1
 
NOUN:1. An area sunk below its surroundings: basin, concavity, depression, dip, hollow, sag, sink, sinkhole. See CONVEX. 2. A place known for its great filth or corruption: cesspit, cesspool, sink. Slang : armpit. See CLEAN, RIGHT.
VERB:To place in opposition or be in opposition to: counter, match, oppose, play off. Idioms: bump heads with, meet head-on, set (or be) at odds, set (or be) at someone's throat, trade blows (or punches) . See SUPPORT.
 
 
Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. Copyright © 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

CONTENTS · GUIDE · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
  PREVIOUS NEXT  
 
Google
Click here to shop the Bartleby Bookstore.
Welcome · Press · Advertising · Linking · Terms of Use · © 2008 Bartleby.com