pitched
/pɪt͡ʃt/ adjective B2- Having a slope, whether shallow, steep, or intermediate. · a pitched roof· The roofs up there are pitched heavier because of the snowfalls.
- Having a specified tonal range. · a high-pitched scream
- Fought 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· nowhere was the battle more pitched than in Ocean City, where protestors maintained a constant picket around city hall
- Covered in pitch.
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It was a large, straggling building, very old in the centre, very new at the wings, with towering Tudor chimneys and a lichen-spotted, high-pitched roof of Horsham slabs.
Ten minutes after she pitched forward, then the other way, spun round and round, and then good-bye to the Pharaon.
It was more especially when this man was speaking in a manner half jesting, half bitter, that Franz’s ear recalled most vividly the deep sonorous, yet well-pitched voice that had addressed him in the grotto of Monte Cristo, and which he heard for the second time amid the darkness and ruined grandeur of the Colosseum.
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