PITTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pitted mean? 

• PITTED (adjective)
  The adjective PITTED has 1 sense:

1. pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb)

  Familiarity information: PITTED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PITTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pitted with cell-like cavities (as a honeycomb)

Synonyms:

alveolate; cavitied; faveolate; honeycombed; pitted

Similar:

cellular (characterized by or divided into or containing cells or compartments (the smallest organizational or structural unit of an organism or organization))

 Context examples 

K. sedentarius is rarely part of the normal flora of the skin and is mostly pathogenic, being the causative agent of pitted keratolysis.

(Kytococcus sedentarius, NCI Thesaurus)

The skin of the breast may also show the pitted appearance called peau d'orange (like the skin of an orange).

(Inflammatory breast cancer, NCI Dictionary)

When exposed to microbially-produced acids, granite tombstones gradually become pitted as bits of rock are dissolved.

(Tales from the crypt: Life after death in a graveyard, National Science Foundation)

I felt that fate had pitted me against this man, and one of us must fall.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Frozen beneath a region of cracked and pitted plains on Mars lies about as much water as what's in Lake Superior, largest of the Great Lakes, researchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have determined.

(Mars Ice Deposit Holds as Much Water as Lake Superior, NASA)