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pitch

/pɪt͡ʃ/ verbo C2

En español: embrear, alquitranar, oscurecer

  1. To cover or smear with pitch.
  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.

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The place was pitch dark, but it was evident to me that it was an empty house.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 17 · C1
All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade’s facts.”
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 49 · C1
He was at the gate when I came out, a-leanin’ up agin the railings, and a-singin’ at the pitch o’ his lungs about Columbine’s New-fangled Banner, or some such stuff.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 43 · B2
Holmes shot the slide across the front of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness—such an absolute darkness as I have never before experienced.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 28 · B2

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