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pelt
1[ pelt ]
verb (used with object)
- to attack or assail with repeated blows or with missiles.
- to throw (missiles).
- to drive by blows or missiles:
The child pelted the cows home from the fields.
- to assail vigorously with words, questions, etc.
- to beat or rush against with repeated forceful blows:
The wind and rain pelted the roofs and walls of the houses for four days.
verb (used without object)
- to strike blows; beat with force or violence.
- to throw missiles.
- to hurry.
- to beat or pound unrelentingly:
The wind, rain, and snow pelted against the castle walls.
- to cast abuse.
pelt
2[ pelt ]
noun
- the untanned hide or skin of an animal.
- Facetious. the human skin.
pelt
1/ ±èÉ›±ô³Ù /
verb
- tr to throw (missiles) at (a person)
- tr to hurl (insults) at (a person)
- intr; foll by along, over, etc to move rapidly; hurry
- introften foll bydown to rain heavily
noun
- a blow
- speed (esp in the phrase at full pelt )
pelt
2/ ±èÉ›±ô³Ù /
noun
- the skin of a fur-bearing animal, such as a mink, esp when it has been removed from the carcass
- the hide of an animal, stripped of hair and ready for tanning
Derived Forms
- ˈ±è±ð±ô³Ù±ð°ù, noun
Other ˜yÐÄvlogs From
- ³Ü²Ô·±è±ð±ô³ÙĻå adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of pelt1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of pelt1
Origin of pelt2
Idioms and Phrases
- in one's pelt, Facetious. naked ( def 1 ).
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Angry fans eventually pelted the would-be revolutionaries with beer, cups and even bottles of urine.
This is one of the ties where you think there is a chance of an upset, because of what Wolves boss Vitor Pereira might do - does he go full pelt, or rest a few?
As embers the size of golf balls pelted the property, she put out spot fires and hosed down the wood-shingled roofs of the Lake Shrine’s historic buildings.
“I was getting pelted by embers on that first run,†Hall said.
That video, which was posted on X on Christmas Day, showed hundreds of skiers lining up for a ski lift while being pelted by snow and wind.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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