pelt

pelt is a 4-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it. See 4th Fell. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 8 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it. See 4th Fell.
2. noun. The human skin.
3. noun. The body of any quarry killed by the hawk.
4. transitive verb. To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail.
5. transitive verb. To throw; to use as a missile.
6. intransitive verb. To throw missiles.
7. intransitive verb. To throw out words.
8. noun. A blow or stroke from something thrown.
9. noun. body covering of a living animal

   Synonyms: hide, skin

10. noun. the dressed hairy coat of a mammal

    Synonyms: fur

11. verb. attack and bombard with or as if with missiles

    "pelt the speaker with questions"

    Synonyms: pepper

12. verb. cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile

    "They pelted each other with snowballs"

    Synonyms: bombard

13. verb. rain heavily

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

    Synonyms: pour, stream

Synonyms

hide, skin, fur, pepper, bombard, pour, stream

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in pelt:

lept

Common word forms

pelts, pelted, pelter, pelting, peltless

Words from these letters

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