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Pitched Pitch High Pitching Throw Lot Level Force

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If you p____ something somewhere, you throw it with quite a lot of force, usually aiming it carefully.If you pitch something somewhere, you throw it with quite a lot of force, usually aiming it carefully.
Simon pitched the empty bottle into the lake.
word pitch
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noun
A pitch is an area of ground that is marked out and used for playing a game such as football, cricket, or hockey .
There was a swimming-pool, cricket pitches, and playing fields.
Their conduct both on and off the pitch was excellent.
The pitch of a sound is how high or low it is.
He raised his voice to an even higher pitch.
If something such as a feeling or a situation rises to a high pitch, it rises to a high level.
No other emotion is able to keep the body at a high pitch for such long periods.
The hysteria reached such a pitch that police were deployed to reassure parents at the school gates.
Pitch is a black substance that is sticky when it is hot and very hard when it is dry. Pitch is used on the bottoms of boats and on the roofs of houses to prevent water getting in.
The timbers of similar houses were painted with pitch.
verb
If you pitch something somewhere, you throw it with quite a lot of force, usually aiming it carefully.
Simon pitched the empty bottle into the lake.
To pitch somewhere means to fall forwards suddenly and with a lot of force.
The movement took him by surprise, and he pitched forward.
Alan staggered sideways, pitched head-first over the low wall and fell into the lake.
I was pitched into the water and swam ashore.
If someone is pitched into a new situation, they are suddenly forced into it.
They were being pitched into a new adventure.
This could pitch the government into confrontation with the work-force.
In the game of baseball or rounders, when you pitch the ball, you throw it to the batter for them to hit it.
We passed long, hot afternoons pitching a baseball.
His pitching was a legend among major league hitters.
If a sound is pitched at a particular level, it is produced at the level indicated.
His cry is pitched at a level that makes it impossible to ignore.
His voice was pitched high, the words muffled by his crying.
Her voice was well pitched and brisk.
If something is pitched at a particular level or degree of difficulty, it is set at that level.
I think the material is pitched at too high a level for our purposes.
The government has pitched High Street interest rates at a new level.
If you pitch your tent, or pitch camp, you put up your tent in a place where you are going to stay .
He had pitched his tent in the yard.
At dusk we pitched camp in the middle of nowhere.
If a boat pitches, it moves violently up and down with the movement of the waves when the sea is rough.
The ship is pitching and rolling in what looks like about fifteen-foot seas.
inflections pitchespitchingpitchedpitching
cefr-level B2

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