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pit

verb as in oppose, play off

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In a book published earlier this year that seems to have been designed to raise her national profile and sort of succeeded, she claimed to have shot a 14-month-old dog in a gravel pit because he wouldn’t behave, as well as to have stared down North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during a meeting that, it would later emerge, never took place, because she made it up.

From Slate

All of which results in the women being forced into the inevitable basement/pit beloved of horror movies.

His war council, and his concubine pit, consists of a crew of mannequins.

From Salon

There are "heavily armed gladiators riding a charging rhinoceros" and "wounded men tumbling from boats into the jaws of ravenous sharks" during the nautical battle staged in the flooded pit of the Colosseum.

From BBC

The marvelous Utopia Orchestra in the pit was composed of leading players from top European ensembles.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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