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1. Anything happening rapidly or in quick succession
   "a pelting of insults";
   - rain

1. Cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile
   "They pelted each other with snowballs";
   - bombard
    
2. Attack and bombard with or as if with missiles
   "pelt the speaker with questions";
   - pepper
    
3. Rain heavily
   "Put on your rain coat-- it's pelting outside!";
   - pour, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets, chuck [Brit], teem, chuck it down [Brit], tip [Brit], bucket [Brit]

Derived forms: peltings

Type of: assail, attack, chronological sequence, chronological succession, rain, rain down, sequence, succession, successiveness, throw, wing

Encyclopedia: Pelting