| 单词 | pelt |
| 释义 | pelt (once / 1327 pages) 1n 2v A pelt is an animal's skin, fur and all. If you are wearing a fur coat, you are really wearing a pelt (hate to break it to you). Another meaning of pelt is to throw something at someone — over and over again. Attacking armies might pelt the enemy with bombs, and there's always some kid in the back of an elementary school classroom who tries to pelt his classmates with spitballs. Either way, there is an attack or bombardment involved. If you dare to wear an animal pelt in front of an animal rights activist, you might just get pelted with a tomato. WORD FAMILYpelt: pelted, pelter, pelting, pelts+/pelter: pelters/pelting: peltings USAGE EXAMPLESTheir car was pelted by at least 125 bullets. Washington Times(Dec 28, 2016) As he walked past, his friends in the press pool pelted him with mock questions: “Sir! Who are you here to meet with today, sir?” The New Yorker(Dec 16, 2016) He tugged at the handle as raindrops pelted his brown hair. Washington Post(Dec 06, 2016) 1 1n the dressed hairy coat of a mammal Syn|Hypo|Hyper fur astrakhan the fur of young lambs bearskinthe pelt of a bear (sometimes used as a rug) beaver, beaver furthe soft brown fur of the beaver chinchillathe expensive silvery grey fur of the chinchilla erminethe expensive white fur of the ermine foxthe grey or reddish-brown fur of a fox lambskinthe skin of a lamb with the wool still on lapin, rabbitthe fur of a rabbit leopardthe pelt of a leopard minkthe expensive fur of a mink muskrat, muskrat furthe brown fur of a muskrat otterthe fur of an otter raccoonthe fur of the North American racoon sablethe expensive dark brown fur of the marten seal, sealskinthe pelt or fur (especially the underfur) of a seal squirrelthe fur of a squirrel broadtailthe fur of a very young karakul lamb Persian lambthe fur of a karakul lamb hudson sealmuskrat fur dressed to simulate sealskin animal skin the outer covering of an animal 2n body covering of a living animal 2Syn|Hyper hide, skin body covering any covering for the body or a body part 1v attack and bombard with or as if with missiles pelt the speaker with questions Syn|Hyper pepper assail, attack launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with 2v cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile They pelted each other with snowballs Syn|Hypo|Hyper bombard lapidate throw stones at snowballthrow snowballs at eggthrow eggs at throw propel through the air 3v rain heavily Syn|Hypo|Hyper pour, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, stream sheet come down as if in sheets sluice, sluice downpour as if from a sluice rain, rain down precipitate as rain |
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