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Synonyms for pit
Synonyms for pit: stone, quarry and match. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 3 synonyms for pit
Interchangeable with pit, one per sense
Audited under pit's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one pit carries in that sense.
- stoneverb, in the sense "remove the pits from"
- quarrynoun, in the sense "a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name pit as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- matchmatch is a verb in the sense "set into opposition or rivalry"
two of these come from pit's own entries in the bank, and one was audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
remove the pits from
Pit plums and cherries.
pit in 2 more sentences, same sense
- The cannery hires extra hands each August to pit peaches before they go into the cans.
- In his letter, Marco reminded us to pit the apricots before drying them in the sun.
How it behaves: In this sense, pit usually takes a fruit noun as direct object, such as plums or olives, and appears often in imperative recipe instructions.
The true synonym
stone
Same sentence, swapped: Stone plums and cherries.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- scar
- oppose
- strip
a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate
The village grew up beside an old slate pit.
The true synonym
quarry
Same sentence, swapped: The village grew up beside an old slate quarry.
Close but different
The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.
- cavity
- inferno
- cellar
Where pit turns up in the game
pit is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where pit is the trap
- circusnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is carnival, in the sense "a frenetic disorganized (and often comic) disturbance suggestive of a large public entertainment", and pit is one of the three tiles that lose.
- opposeverb, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is fight, in the sense "fight against or resist strongly", so pit is there to be ruled out.
- cornernoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is nook, in the sense "an interior angle formed by two meeting walls", and pit is on the board beside it.
- stripverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is dismantle, in the sense "take off or remove", with pit sitting one tile away.
Play pit
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so pit reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because change is the company pit keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. pit carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.