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English noun: pelt | |||
| 1. | pelt (substance) the dressed hairy coat of a mammal | ||
| Synonyms | fur | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | animal skin | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | astrakhan, bearskin, beaver, beaver fur, chinchilla, ermine, fox, lambskin, lapin, leopard, mink, muskrat, muskrat fur, otter, rabbit, raccoon, sable, seal, sealskin, squirrel | ||
| 2. | pelt (animal) body covering of a living animal | ||
| Synonyms | hide, skin | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | body covering | ||
English verb: pelt | |||
| 1. | pelt (contact) cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile | ||
| Samples | They pelted each other with snowballs. | ||
| Synonyms | bombard | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody with something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | throw | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | egg, lapidate, snowball | ||
| 2. | pelt (competition) attack and bombard with or as if with missiles | ||
| Samples | Pelt the speaker with questions. | ||
| Synonyms | pepper | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody with something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | assail, attack | ||
| Entail | throw | ||
| 3. | pelt (weather) rain heavily | ||
| Samples | Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!. | ||
| Examples | It was pelting all day long | ||
| Synonyms | pour, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, stream | ||
| Pattern of use | It is ----ing | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | rain, rain down | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | sheet, sluice, sluice down | ||
Based on WordNet 3.0 copyright © Princeton University.
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