pelt
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(verb) cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile; "They pelted each other with snowballs" |
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Synonyms: bombard |
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Related Words: egg, snowball, throw |
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2. |
(verb) attack with missiles or questions |
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Synonyms: pepper |
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Related Words: assail, attack |
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(noun) body covering of a living animal |
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Synonyms: hide, skin |
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Related Words: body covering |
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(verb) rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat--it's pouring outside!" |
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Synonyms: pour, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, stream |
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Related Words: rain, rain down, sheet, sluice, sluice down |
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(noun) the dressed hairy coat of a mammal |
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Synonyms: fur |
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Related Words: animal skin, astrakhan, bearskin, beaver, chinchilla, ermine, fox, lambskin, lapin, leopard, mink, muskrat, otter, rabbit, raccoon, sable, seal, sealskin, squirrel |
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