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pelt

/ pelt /
verb/noun

Definitions & Examples

verb Sense 1
cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile
"They pelted each other with snowballs"
Type of:
throw
Kinds of:
lapidate snowball egg
Derived:
pelter rain pelting
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
noun Sense 2
body covering of a living animal
Type of:
body covering
Derived:
skin scrape
noun Sense 3
the dressed hairy coat of a mammal
Type of:
animal skin
Kinds of:
astrakhan bearskin beaver chinchilla ermine
verb Sense 4
attack and bombard with or as if with missiles
"pelt the speaker with questions"
Type of:
attack assail
Derived:
pelter
Entails:
throw
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
verb Sense 5
rain heavily
"Put on your rain coat-- it''s pouring outside!"
Type of:
rain rain down
Kinds of:
sheet sluice sluice down
Derived:
downpour cloudburst deluge waterspout torrent
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s somebody
Semantic Complexity
50%
Sense Count
5
Total Synonyms
0
Total Relationships
30
Times Searched
3
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throw lapidate snowball egg body covering animal skin astrakhan bearskin beaver chinchilla ermine attack