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PELTING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Anything happening rapidly or in quick successive
Example:
a pelting of insults
Synonyms:
pelting; rain
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("pelting" is a kind of...):
chronological sequence; chronological succession; sequence; succession; successiveness (a following of one thing after another in time)
Derivation:
pelt (cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb pelt
