Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb pit

3 senses of pit

Sense 1
pit, oppose, match, play off -- (set into opposition or rivalry; "let them match their best athletes against ours"; "pit a chess player against the Russian champion"; "He plays his two children off against each other")
       => confront, face -- (oppose, as in hostility or a competition; "You must confront your opponent"; "Jackson faced Smith in the boxing ring"; "The two enemies finally confronted each other")

Sense 2
scar, mark, pock, pit -- (mark with a scar; "The skin disease scarred his face permanently")
       => deface, disfigure, blemish -- (mar or spoil the appearance of; "scars defaced her cheeks"; "The vandals disfigured the statue")

Sense 3
pit, stone -- (remove the pits from; "pit plums and cherries")
       => remove, take, take away, withdraw -- (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment")

Antonyms of adj pitted

1 sense of pitted

Sense 1
alveolate, faveolate, cavitied, honeycombed, pitted -- (pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb))

INDIRECT (VIA cellular) -> noncellular, acellular -- (not made up of or divided into cells)

Similarity of adj pitted

1 sense of pitted

Sense 1
alveolate, faveolate, cavitied, honeycombed, pitted -- (pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb))
       => cellular (vs. noncellular) -- (characterized by or divided into or containing cells or compartments (the smallest organizational or structural unit of an organism or organization); "the cellular construction of a beehive"; "any effective opposition to a totalitarian regime must be secretive and cellular")

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