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pitch

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of PITCH

1
to fix in an upright position <needed help pitching a tent>
Related Words brace, buttress, prop (up), shore (up), support; boost, crane, elevate, heave, heft, heighten, hike, hoist, jack (up), lift, perk (up), pick up, up, uphold, uplift
2
to cast oneself head first into deep water <when a wave hit the float, I lost my balance and pitched into the lake>
Synonyms pitch, plunge, sound
Related Words dip, immerse, submerge; belly flop, plump, plunk (or plonk)
Near Antonyms surface
3
to make a series of unsteady side-to-side motions <the ship pitched in the choppy sea>
Synonyms careen, lurch, pitch, roll, seesaw, sway, toss, wobble (also wabble)
4
to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm <pitched the baseball almost 50 feet>
5
to get rid of as useless or unwanted <we decided to pitch that whole system and start over again>
Synonyms cashier, cast (off), chuck, deep-six, ditch, dump, eighty-six (or 86), exorcise (also exorcize), fling (off or away), jettison, junk, lay by, lose, pitch, reject, scrap, shed, shuck (off), slough (off) also sluff (off), throw away, throw out, toss, unload
6
to provide publicity for <the cutting-edge ad agency was hired to pitch our products to a younger generation of consumers>
Related Words advertise, bark, merchandise (also merchandize), sell; push; acclaim, hail, laud, praise; endorse (also indorse), plump (for), plunk (for) or plonk (for); recommend, review; announce, broadcast, publish
7
to set or cause to be at an angle <the roof should be pitched steeply enough to prevent an excessive accumulation of snow>
Near Antonyms even, flatten, level, straighten

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