pitched

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of pitch

comparative more pitched · superlative most pitched

1. Having a slope, whether shallow, steep, or intermediate.

   a pitched roof

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   The roofs up there are pitched heavier because of the snowfalls.

   If you look closely, you can see that this whole patio is pitched at a quarter-inch to the foot.

2. not comparableHaving a specified tonal range.

   a high-pitched scream

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   Carrados made his smiling admission and changed his position a fraction—possibly to catch her curiously pitched voice the better.

   1914, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados

3. fight; etc; fight; etcFought at a particular place and time, at which opposing forces anticipate and commit to fighting; (later especially) involving sustained, intense military (or by extension, political, legal etc.) fighting.

   a pitched battle

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   nowhere was the battle more pitched than in Ocean City, where protestors maintained a constant picket around city hall

4. not comparableCovered in pitch.

   He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter-of-a-penny loaf — our crug — moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.

   1823, Charles Lamb, Essays of Elia