pelt

🇺🇸 /pelt/ 🇬🇧 /pelt/
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verb
R

to throw things at someone as an attack

We were pelted with rotten tomatoes.

R

to fall down very hard

Raindrops the size of golf balls were pelting down on her.

R

to run very fast

We pelted down the hill after the car.

noun
R

the skin of an animal with fur or hair

The pelt of the fox was very soft.

translation

v. to throw things at someone as an attack; to fall down very hard; to run very fast
n. the skin of an animal with fur or hair

Word Forms

3rd Present pelts
Past pelted
Perfect pelted
Progressive pelting
Plural pelts