pit

/pɪt/ verb (present participle pitting, past tense and past participle pitted)

Translation

pit sb/sth against sb/sth phrasal verb

› to make someone or something compete against someone or something else

kapıştırmak, boy ölçüştürmek

Chelsea will be pitted against Manchester United in the fourth round of the tournament.1842

(Definition of pit verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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