pitched

adjective

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Pronunciation: /pɪt͡ʃt/

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”
“Carrados made his smiling admission and changed his position a fraction—possibly to catch her curiously pitched voice the better.”
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.
“He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter-of-a-penny loaf — our crug — moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.”