pitched

simple past and past participle of pitchform-ofparticiplepast

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

• a pitched roof
• The roofs up there are pitched heavier because of the snowfalls.

Having a specified tonal range.not-comparable

• a high-pitched scream

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

Covered in pitch.not-comparable

• 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.