pith
noun
the soft, spongy central cylinder of parenchymatous tissue in the stems of dicotyledonous plants.
pithed
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past participleof pith.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof pith.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
pithnounthe soft, spongy central cylinder of parenchymatous tissue in the stems of dicotyledonous plants.
Example Sentences
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The entire book is narrated in an urgent, poking present tense, and the pithed characters, of different ages, are presented without complex histories—indeed, without much history at all.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 3, 2016
Dickey pithed three-hit ball for seven innings as Toronto romped past Boston.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 29, 2014
My nephews are sprawled like pithed frogs before the HDTV, teaching themselves physics by lobbing antimatter bombs onto an offending civilization from high orbit.
From Time Magazine Archive
Watched to water and pithed by Postal Packet, Dec. 14th.
From Actions and Reactions by Rudyard Kipling
He commends Parsley roots to be in greatest quantity, boiled whole, if young; but quarterred and pithed, if great and old.
From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by Anne MacDonell
