Synonyms for pelt
pɛltpelt

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1. fur, peltnoun

   the dressed hairy coat of a mammal

   Synonyms:
   fur, hide, skin

2. hide, pelt, skinverb

   body covering of a living animal

   Synonyms:
   peel, tegument, cutis, hide, fell, fur, skin

3. pelt, bombardverb

   cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile

   "They pelted each other with snowballs"

   Synonyms:
   barrage, pepper, bombard, rain buckets, rain cats and dogs, bomb, pour, stream

4. pepper, peltverb

   attack and bombard with or as if with missiles

   "pelt the speaker with questions"

   Synonyms:
   stream, pour, rain cats and dogs, pepper, bombard, rain buckets

5. pour, pelt, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain bucketsverb

   rain heavily

   "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!"

   Synonyms:
   pour out, decant, pepper, bombard, pour, pullulate, rain buckets, swarm, teem, well out, rain cats and dogs, stream

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1. • Animal Skin

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. peltnoun

   Synonyms:
   skin (of a beast with the hair on it), hide

2. peltverb

   Synonyms:
   strike (with something thrown), beat, batter, assail with missiles

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. peltnoun

   Synonyms:
   woolfell, fell

2. peltverb

   Synonyms:
   batter, beat, assail, pepper

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "pelt":

   skin, hurl

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1. Detroit Police Chief James Craig:

   They [surrounded] the vehicle, they began to pelt the vehicle –­not just one of our police cruisers but two of them –­and in one instance the rear window of one of our SUVs was broken out. And, the information I got from the officer in that vehicle was that he thought he wasbeing shot at.

2. Detroit Police Chief James Craig:

   I know that the congresswoman is making claims that they were peacefully marching when we intersected and intentionally hit peaceful protesters. [That is] not the case, they [surrounded] the vehicle, they began to pelt the vehicle –­not just one of our police cruisers but two of them –­and in one instance the rear window of one of our SUVs was broken out. And, the information I got from the officer in that vehicle was that he thought he wasbeing shot at.

3. Raneshwar Sing Kishan:

   Filmy style is used by Govt to snub the voice of dissentors. Send own Goondas in the midst of villages to pelt stone on protestors and to make them clash and bootlicking media covers the picture through camera in such a way that it misguide viewers

4. Fox News:

   Patrick Fitzgerald persisted for years in trying to get somebody's pelt nailed to his wall, mine and Scooter's. And Patrick Fitzgerald got Scooter.