pelt
verb/pelt/
/pelt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they pelt | /pelt/ /pelt/ |
| he / she / it pelts | /pelts/ /pelts/ |
| past simple pelted | /ˈpeltɪd/ /ˈpeltɪd/ |
| past participle pelted | /ˈpeltɪd/ /ˈpeltɪd/ |
| -ing form pelting | /ˈpeltɪŋ/ /ˈpeltɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] pelt somebody (with something) to attack somebody by throwing things at them
- The children pelted him with snowballs.
- We were pelted with rotten tomatoes.
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- [intransitive] pelt (down) (of rain) to fall very heavily
- By now the rain was pelting down.
- I drove home with the rain pelting through the window.
- Raindrops the size of golf balls were pelting down on her.
- [intransitive] + adv./prep. (informal) to run somewhere very fast synonym dash
- We pelted down the hill after the car.
Word Originverb late 15th cent.: of unknown origin.
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