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pitch-black

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pitch-black (pchblk)
adj.
Extremely dark; black as pitch.

pitch-black
Adjective
extremely dark; unlit: it was a wild night, pitch-black, with howling gales
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Adj.1.pitch-black - extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar"
dark - devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black; "sitting in a dark corner"; "a dark day"; "dark shadows"; "dark as the inside of a black cat"

pitch-black or pitch-dark
adjective dark, black, jet, raven, ebony, sable, unlit, jet-black, inky, Stygian, pitchy, unilluminated
Translations
Spanish pitch-black [ˈpɪtʃˈblæk] adjnegro como boca de lobo
French pitch-black [ˈpɪtʃˈblæk] pitch adjnoir(e) comme poix
German pitch-black [ˈpɪtʃˈblæk] pitch adjpechschwarz
Italian pitch-black [pɪtʃˈblæk] adjnero/a come la pece

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In front of us, at a distance of two hundred yards or so as well as I could calculate, rose a black mass, which gradually resolved itself, as my eyes became accustomed to the twilight, into a long, low, and ancient house, with a hedge of evergreens and a pitch-black paling in front of it.
The little girl sitting at the table was obstinately and violently battering on it with a cork, and staring aimlessly at her mother with her pitch-black eyes.
As it would have been cruel to demand assistance from such a shadowy wreck I went to work myself, dragging my chest along a pitch-black passage under the poop deck, while he sighed and moaned around me as if my exertions were more than his weakness could stand.
 
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