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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 advThesaurus| Noun | 1. |  pelting - 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 downTo 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, peltpelt (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: peltpelt 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, peltEncyclopediaSeepeltpelting
Related to pelting: pelting downSynonyms for peltingnoun anything happening rapidly or in quick successiveSynonymsRelated Words- chronological sequence
- chronological succession
- succession
- successiveness
- sequence
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