Definition of Pelting
Noun: pelting pel-ting
- Anything happening rapidly or in quick succession
"a pelting of insults";
- rain
- Cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile
"They pelted each other with snowballs";
- bombard
- Attack and bombard with or as if with missiles
"pelt the speaker with questions";
- pepper
- 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]
See also:
pelters
Peltiphyllum
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