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the pits

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. hell, hell on earth, hellhole, snake pit, the pits, infernonoun

    any place of pain and turmoil

    "the hell of battle"; "the inferno of the engine room"; "when you're alone Christmas is the pits";

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  1. the pitsnoun

    Something miserable or unpleasant.

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  1. the pits

    "The pits" is an informal phrase used predominantly in American English to describe a situation, person, or place that is extremely unpleasant or the worst possible of its kind. It is often used in the context of negative feelings or experiences.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of the pits in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of the pits in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of the pits in a Sentence

  1. Grzegorz Fr?ckowiak:

    Open pits have existed and continue to exist in this region and look how many lakes there are.

  2. Ang Tshering Sherpa:

    Discarded in ice pits, the human waste remains under the snow, when washed down by glaciers (when the snow melts), it comes out in the open.

  3. John Marshall:

    During my second tour, we were providing security for the EOD [Explosive Ordnance Disposal] guys, we didn’t know what we were blowing up, so it’s possible that there we were exposed to something toxic. We stood over open burn pits.

  4. Larry Caldwell:

    I know the character of the man, you take a man like that and you’re then going to say he participated in a brutal crime of murder, knowing that being associated with that would send him to the pits of hell? ... If there was one man who would be willing to stand in the breach to help his country, it would be Christian.

  5. Glenn Close:

    I am so thrilled it's a tie, I can't tell you, the world kind of pits us against each other in this profession and I know that from all the women in this category, and I think I can speak for all the women in this room, we celebrate each other.

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