NOUN | substance | pelt, fur | the dressed hairy coat of a mammal |
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animal | pelt, hide, skin | body covering of a living animal | |
VERB | contact | pelt, bombard | cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile |
competition | pelt, pepper | attack and bombard with or as if with missiles | |
weather | pelt, pour, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets | rain heavily |
Sounds | peh'lt | |
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Rhymes | belt ... welt: 13 rhymes with ehlt... |
Meaning | The dressed hairy coat of a mammal. | |
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Synonym | fur | |
Narrower | astrakhan | The fur of young lambs |
bearskin | The pelt of a bear (sometimes used as a rug) | |
beaver, beaver fur | The soft brown fur of the beaver | |
chinchilla | The expensive silvery grey fur of the chinchilla | |
ermine | The expensive white fur of the ermine | |
fox | The grey or reddish-brown fur of a fox | |
lambskin | The skin of a lamb with the wool still on | |
lapin, rabbit | The fur of a rabbit | |
leopard | The pelt of a leopard | |
mink | The expensive fur of a mink | |
muskrat, muskrat fur | The brown fur of a muskrat | |
otter | The fur of an otter | |
raccoon | The fur of the North American racoon | |
sable | The expensive dark brown fur of the marten | |
seal, sealskin | The pelt or fur (especially the underfur) of a seal | |
squirrel | The fur of a squirrel | |
Broader | animal skin | The outer covering of an animal |
Spanish | cuero, piel | |
Catalan | pell |
Meaning | body covering of a living animal. | |
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Synonyms | hide, skin | |
Broader | body covering | Any covering for the body or a body part |
Spanish | pellejo, piel | |
Catalan | cuir, pell |
Meaning | cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody with something | |
Example | "They pelted each other with snowballs" | |
Synonym | bombard | |
Narrower | egg | Throw eggs at |
lapidate | Throw stones at | |
snowball | Throw snowballs at | |
Broader | throw | Propel through the air |
Spanish | bombardear | |
Catalan | bombardejar | |
Nouns | pelter | a thrower of missiles |
pelting | anything happening rapidly or in quick successive |
Meaning | attack and bombard with or as if with missiles. | |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody with something | |
Example | "pelt the speaker with questions" | |
Synonym | pepper | |
Entails | throw | Propel through the air |
Broader | attack, assail | launch an attack or assault on |
Spanish | acribillar | |
Nouns | pelter | a thrower of missiles |
Meaning | rain heavily. | |
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Pattern | It is ----ing | |
Model | It was pelting all day long | |
Synonyms | pour, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets | |
Narrower | sheet | come down as if in sheets |
sluice, sluice down | pour as if from a sluice | |
Broader | rain, rain down | precipitate as rain |
Spanish | diluviar, llover a cántaros | |
Catalan | diluviar, ploure a bots i barrals | |
Nouns | pelter | a heavy rain |
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