PITCH INTO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pitch into mean? 

• PITCH INTO (verb)
  The verb PITCH INTO has 1 sense:

1. hit violently, as in an attack

  Familiarity information: PITCH INTO used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PITCH INTO (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hit violently, as in an attack

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

lace into; lam into; lay into; pitch into; tear into

Hypernyms (to "pitch into" is one way to...):

hit (deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

The fighter managed to pitch into his opponent

 Context examples 

Now then, young Brooke, pitch into a man of your own size, will you? cried Laurie, delighted with a poke in the face from a tiny fist, flapping aimlessly about.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Say, Henry, that other one that come in an' got a fish—why didn't the dogs pitch into it?

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He felt much in the same way that he would have felt had the Shelly Hot Springs Laundry suddenly invaded the Hotel Metropole with a whole week's washing ready for him to pitch into.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)