pitfalling
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
noun
The process or act of succumbing to an unexpected hazard or pitfall.
Example Sentences
- "able to shew us the ways of the Lord straight and faithful as they are, not full of cranks and contradictions, and pitfalling dispenses"
- "But always with my future as Nicholas's illustration of moral pitfalling possibilities."
- "If one is looking for evidence of last-days decadence in New York during the pitfalling 1970s—which had an entirely different feel from the money-first decadence of the 1980s, except that obth involved turckloads of cocaine—you wouldn't have to look much further than Studio 54."
- "Here is all the evidence of which we are at present cognizant; but is it not almost enough to start a party for New Zealand in the hope of trapping, toiling, or pitfalling, —anything but shooting, —the biggest bird in the world, and bringing it alive to England, as the crown of the Knowsley and the Regent's Park menageries?"
- "Hunting, poisoning, trapping, pitfalling and other types of extermination campaigns are carried out and are sometimes organized by local authorities."
- "When pitfalling in dry areas, birds and other animals soon learn where to get a drink."