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pit

verb as in oppose, play off

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So what of the photograph of what the Senate report described as a “well-used waterboard” with buckets around it, at the Salt Pit?

He watched the pit grow bigger every month, despite the numerous reports he wrote about the facility.

He said he watched waste haulers back up to the pit and unleash torrents of watery muck.

In several reports he urged the pit operators to safeguard the birds.

Abarca allegedly battered Hernandez, who was then dumped in the pit.

With the management of these, however, the Earl of Pit Town did not trouble himself.

At length the great Pit Town collection was housed as it deserved to be.

Old Pit Town knows lots of good people, and would give us letters, I suppose.

Certes le capitaine Merveilles et ses gens monstrerent leur pit non vulgaire.

We never see such horrors now; and I actually envied Pit Town the possession of that picture.

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On this page you'll find 91 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pit, such as: abyss, crater, mine, shaft, tomb, and trench.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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