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Meanings of pit in English
(Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment.
Synonyms
Examples for "mark"
Examples for "mark"
1
Wars against France, the dominant power in Europe, had left their mark.
2
They managed it, however, drawing the body clear of high water mark.
3
It's understood that today will mark a new record number of deaths.
4
Flee the mark of Cain, and come home... come home... come home.
5
The deal would mark its second so-called securitisation deal in 18 months.
1
Results: Radiologically, these three second tumors were clearly cut-end scar area recurrences.
2
The flower-cluster leaves a round scar in the leaf-axil, as in Cherry.
3
Suzy's hand left Roddy's scar for the first time since he'd begun.
4
Harper thought it would need stitches and was likely to scar badly.
5
Even after twenty-five years, the scar of that great burning was there.
1
Small pock ets of lightning sizzled within, creating two glowing, electric orbs.
2
If his skin had a pock on it, Asa hadn't seen it.
3
His pock-marked features were working horribly as he talked silent to himself.
4
Izzy's pock-marked face soured for a second as he stared at Gordon.
5
At Smith's elbow was a small, black-haired Jew with a pock-marked face.
Usage of pit in English
1
They went in to the pit; and I went in after them.
2
Power received a penalty for coming into Takuma Sato exiting his pit.
3
Thou sattest in one bucket beneath in the pit in great dread.
4
He slipped away into the gloom in the direction of the pit.
5
Which when you're looking for a pit-stop can often swing the vote.
6
In the deep pit below, the sinful ones dance in torturing flames.
7
A provincial ban on open-pit mining has been in effect since 2010.
8
He now believes that the programme of pit closures went too far.
9
He was a dead rooster; yea, a dead cock in the pit.
10
Digging up the hangi pit with Radio New Zealand's Maori News team.
11
From that I deduced that the money was hidden in the pit.
12
Five days later, the Ontario legislature banned the ownership of pit bulls.
13
Protoplasmic continuity has been observed in the delicate membrane closing the pit.
14
The person who was hanging in the pit continually drank those jets.
15
He peered down at the few white men in the pit below.
16
Poor Mrs Adams was among those in the front surrounding the pit.
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Translations for pit
Portuguese
Pit through the time
Pit across language varieties
United States of America
Common
South Africa
Common
United Kingdom
Common
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