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pitchesnounpl. of pitch an act or instance of divingthe daring pitch of the escaped prisoner into the swirling ocean waters at the base of the cliff dives, plunges dips, immersions, submersionsfalls, plumps, slips, spills, stumbles, tumblesdescents, dropsbelly flops, headers, jackknives, swan dives jumps, leaps the degree to which something rises up from a position level with the horizonthe steep pitch of the roof makes it too dangerous to walk on cants, diagonals, grades, gradients, inclinations, inclines, leans, rakes, slants, slopes, upgrades ascents, banks, climbs, rises declensions, declinations, declines, declivities, descents, dips, downgrades, falls, hangings, hangs pitchesverbpresent tense third-person singular of pitchto fix in an upright positionneeded help pitching a tent erects, puts up, raises, rears, sets up, upends, upraises braces, buttresses, props (up), shores (up), supportsboosts, cranes, elevates, heaves, hefts, heightens, hikes, hoists, jacks (up), lifts, perks (up), picks up, upholds, uplifts, ups demolishes, flattens, knocks down, levels, razes, tears down to cast oneself head first into deep waterwhen a wave hit the float, I lost my balance and pitched into the lake to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motionsthe ship pitched in the choppy sea careens, lurches, rocks, rolls, seesaws, sways, tosses, wobbles(also wabbles) blunders, bucks, dodders, falters, flounders, halts, hitches, hobbles, jerks, jolts, reels, shakes, staggers, stumbles, teeters, toddles, totters, tumbles, vacillates, vibrates, waddles, wavers, weavesoscillates, undulates, waggles, wags to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the armpitched the baseball almost 50 feet casts, catapults, chucks, dashes, fires, flings, heaves, hurls, hurtles, launches, lobs, lofts, pegs, pelts, slings, throws, tosses bowls, darts, flips, guns, hooks, passes, rolls, shootsbucks, ejects, impels, precipitates, projects, propels, rifles, thrusts lets fly to get rid of as useless or unwantedwe decided to pitch that whole system and start over again cashiers, casts (off), chucks, deep-sixes, discards, ditches, dumps, eighty-sixes(or 86es), exorcises(also exorcizes), flings (off or away), jettisons, junks, lays by, loses, rejects, scraps, sheds, shucks (off), sloughs (off)also sluffs (off), throws away, throws out, tosses, unloads abandons, abdicates, deserts, forsakesdismisses, kicks outabolishes, annihilates, eliminates, eradicates, expunges, exterminates, extinguishes, extirpates, liquidates, removes, roots (out), stamps (out), wipes out disposes of, sets aside adopts, embraces, takes onemploys, uses, utilizesholds, holds back, keeps, retains to provide publicity forthe cutting-edge ad agency was hired to pitch our products to a younger generation of consumers ballyhoos, boosts, hypes, plugs, promotes, publicizes, talks up, touts advertises, barks, merchandises(also merchandizes), sellspushesacclaims, hails, lauds, praisesendorses(also indorses), plumps (for), plunks (for)or plonks (for)recommends, reviewsannounces, broadcasts, publishes beats the drum (for) to set or cause to be at an anglethe roof should be pitched steeply enough to prevent an excessive accumulation of snow angles, cants, cocks, heels, inclines, leans, lists, slants, slopes, tilts, tips banksbends, deviates, swerves, veersdeclines, descends, reclines, retreats evens, flattens, levels, straightens |