nnoun.attributeanything happening rapidly or in quick successiveSynset:rain
Examples:- a rain of bullets
- a pelting of insults
Derivationally Related Form:pelt
Hypernyms:chronological sequence chronological succession sequence succession successiveness
Inherited Hypernyms:rainsequencetemporal arrangementtemporal propertypropertyattributeabstractionentity
vverb.contactcast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missileSynset:bombard pelt
Examples:- They pelted each other with snowballs
Derivationally Related Form:pelterpelting
Hypernyms:throw
Inherited Hypernyms:peltthrowpropelmove
Direct Hyponyms:egglapidatesnowball
Full Troponyms:egglapidatesnowball
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s somebody with something
vverb.competitionattack and bombard with or as if with missilesSynset:pelt pepper
Examples:- pelt the speaker with questions
Derivationally Related Form:pelter
Hypernyms:assail attack
Inherited Hypernyms:pepperattackcontend
Entailment:throw
Sentence Frame:Somebody ---s somebody with something
vverb.weatherrain heavilySynset:pelt pour rain buckets rain cats and dogs stream
Examples:- Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!
Derivationally Related Form:pelter
Hypernyms:rain rain down
Inherited Hypernyms:pourrainprecipitate
Direct Hyponyms:sheetsluicesluice down
Full Troponyms:sheetsluice
Sentence Frame:It is ---ing | It was ---ing all day long (apply to: pelt, rain cats and dogs, stream, pour, rain buckets)