Synonyms for
Pitting
Definition
The definition of 'pitting' is the formation of small holes or indentations on a surface.
Synonyms & similar words
Example sentences
- The pitting on the metal surface was caused by rust.
- He counted the number of pits on the peach.
- The pitting on the road made it difficult to ride a bike.
- She used a fork to pit the olives.
- The pitting on his face was a result of acne.
Quotes
Time, which sees all things, has found you out. Yet Fortune has not deigned to follow suit. She still remains blind, while you are pitted with wounds.
The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins, the ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves... it is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, unbounded, and indifferent as the abyssal depths over which the light of the sun has never shone; it is mutable like the earth and the sky, and yet it is a still, constant presence, companionable, moody, gentle, forbidding, treacherous, stormy: mother, lover, mistress, wife.
I'm always looking for a new challenge. There are a lot of mountains to climb out there. When I run out of mountains, I'll build a new one.