Amharic Dictionary
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    • pit :a sizeable hole (usually in the ground)
      • they dug a pit to bury the body

    • pit :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

    • pit :mark with a scar
      • The skin disease scarred his face permanently

    • pit :the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed
      • you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking

    • pit :remove the pits from
      • pit plums and cherries

    • pit :(Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment
      • Hurl'd headlong...To bottomless perdition, there to dwell|a demon from the depths of the pit|Hell is paved with good intentions

    • pit :a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate
      • a British term for `quarry' is `stone pit'

    • pit :a concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression)

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