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Noun: pelting  pelting
  1. Anything happening rapidly or in quick successive
    "a pelting of insults"
    - rain
Verb: pelt  pelt
  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
    - pour, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets

Derived forms: peltings

See also: pelter

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

Encyclopedia: Pelt

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