pepper sth with sth
— phrasal verb with pepper uk/ˈpep.ər/us/ˈpep.ɚ/verb
(HIT)
to hit something repeatedly with small objects:
The city's walls were peppered with bullets.
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Detonation & bombardment
- air raid
- airstrike
- blanket bombing
- blitz
- blitz
- detonator
- direct hit
- dive-bomb
- firebomb
- first strike
- go off
- let loose sth idiom
- mine
- shoot
- shoot sth down
- shooting
- strafe
- strike
- strike home idiom
- torpedo
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(INCLUDE)
[ often passive ] If you pepper a speech or piece of writing with something, you include a lot of that particular thing:
The letter was peppered with exclamation marks.
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Including and containing
- (right) down to idiom
- assimilate
- build sth in/into sth
- built-in
- cast
- cast your net wide idiom
- catholic
- extend
- factor
- factor sth in
- figure
- forget
- inbuilt
- incl
- pack
- package
- rich
- subsume
- throw sth in
- wide-ranging
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