Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
The human skin.
- 3noun
The body of any quarry killed by the hawk.
- 4transitive verb
To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail.
- 5transitive verb
To throw; to use as a missile.
- 6intransitive verb
To throw missiles.
- 7intransitive verb
To throw out words.
- 8noun
A blow or stroke from something thrown.
- 9noun
body covering of a living animal
- 10noun
the dressed hairy coat of a mammal
Synonyms
- 11verb
attack and bombard with or as if with missiles
"pelt the speaker with questions"
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- 12verb
cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile
"They pelted each other with snowballs"
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- 13verb
rain heavily
"Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!"
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