pitched

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of pitch

adj

1. Having a slope, whether shallow, steep, or intermediate.

   “a pitched roof”

   “The roofs up there are pitched heavier because of the snowfalls.”

   “If you look closely, you can see that this whole patio is pitched at a quarter-inch to the foot.”

2. (not-comparable)Having a specified tonal range.

   “a high-pitched scream”

   “Carrados made his smiling admission and changed his position a fraction—possibly to catch her curiously pitched voice the better.”

3. Fought at a particular place and time, at which opposing forces anticipate and commit to fighting; (later especially) involving sustained, intense military (or by extension, political, legal etc.) fighting.

   “a pitched battle”

   “nowhere was the battle more pitched than in Ocean City, where protestors maintained a constant picket around city hall”

4. (not-comparable)Covered in pitch.

   “He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter-of-a-penny loaf — our crug — moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggings, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.”