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pitch-dark

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pitch-dark (pchdärk)
adj.
Extremely dark.

pitch-dark
Adjective
extremely or completely dark
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Adj.1.pitch-dark - 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"


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The sun was setting when consciousness returned, and it was pitch-dark before the Great Staircase was descended; but by a combination of luck and care, the whole four thousand seven hundred feet of descent to Breil was accomplished without a slip, or once missing the way.
There was nothing to do but to walk forward; which I did through passage after passage, pitch-dark.
We were in consequence obliged to stand off and on in this narrow arm of the sea, during a pitch-dark night of fourteen hours long.
 
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