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单词 pelting
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pelting


pelt·ing

P0158200 (pĕl′tĭng)adj. Archaic Paltry; petty: "This land ... / Is now leas'd out ... / Like to a tenement or pelting farm" (Shakespeare).
[Perhaps from dialectal pelt, trash.]

pelting

(ˈpɛltɪŋ) adjarchaic paltry or meaningless ˈpeltingly adv
Thesaurus
Noun1.pelting - anything happening rapidly or in quick successivepelting - anything happening rapidly or in quick successive; "a rain of bullets"; "a pelting of insults"rainchronological sequence, chronological succession, succession, successiveness, sequence - a following of one thing after another in time; "the doctor saw a sequence of patients"

pelting


pelt down

To come down from the sky very forcefully and in great amounts. The rain has been pelting down for almost a week straight! I'm surprised our car wasn't damaged from the way that hail was pelting down.See also: down, pelt

pelt (someone or something) with (something)

To throw a lot of something at someone or something very forcefully. The group of boys pelted John with snowballs. The protestors began pelting the courthouse with rotten fruit and vegetables.See also: pelt

pelt down (on someone or something)

[for something] to fall down on someone or something hard or in quantity. (Typically rain, hail, sleet, stones, etc.) The rain pelted down on the children as they ran to their school bus. The ashes from the volcanic eruption pelted down on the town, covering the houses in a gray shroud.See also: down, pelt
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pelting


Related to pelting: pelting down
  • noun

Synonyms for pelting

noun anything happening rapidly or in quick successive

Synonyms

  • rain

Related Words

  • chronological sequence
  • chronological succession
  • succession
  • successiveness
  • sequence
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