pelt
1. the dressed hairy coat of a mammal
• Syn:
fur
• Hypernyms:
animal skin
• Hyponyms:
astrakhan, bearskin, beaver, beaver fur, chinchilla,
ermine, fox, lambskin, lapin, rabbit, leopard,
mink, muskrat, muskrat fur, otter, raccoon, sable,
seal, sealskin, squirrel
2. body covering of a living animal
• Syn:
hide, skin
• Derivationally related forms:
skin (for: skin)
• Hypernyms:
body covering
1. cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile (Freq. 1)
- They pelted each other with snowballs
• Syn:
bombard
• Derivationally related forms:
pelter, pelting
• Hypernyms:
throw
• Hyponyms:
lapidate, snowball, egg
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody with something
2. attack and bombard with or as if with missiles (Freq. 1)
- pelt the speaker with questions
• Syn:
pepper
• Derivationally related forms:
pelter
• Hypernyms:
attack, assail
• Entailment:
throw
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody with something
3. rain heavily
- Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!
• Syn:
pour, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets
• Derivationally related forms:
pelter
• Hypernyms:
rain, rain down
• Hyponyms:
sheet, sluice, sluice down
• Verb Frames:
- It is ----ing
- It was pelting all day long
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