pelted
past simple and past participle ofpelt
pelt
verb
uk/pelt/us/pelt/peltverb(THROW)
[T]
tothrowanumberof thingsquicklyat someone or something:
Wesawrioters peltingpolicewithbricksandbottles.
to throw something
- throwThe kids were outside throwing snowballs at each other.
- tossShe tossed the keys into her bag and went out.
- chuckHe read the letter and chucked it into the bin.
- flingHe crumpled up the letter and flung it into the fire.
- hurlIn a fit of temper he hurled the book across the room.
- lobThe boys spent an hour lobbing stones into the lake.
Throwing
- arm
- cast
- flick
- fling
- heave
- hurl
- outpitch
- overhand
- peg
- pelt
- sling
- stone
- thread
- throw
- throwsomethingin
- toss
- underarm
- underhand
- wang
- whang
peltverb(RUN)
[I+ adv/prep]informal
torunfast:
Thechildrenpelted down thebank.
Moving quickly
- agility
- beetle
- bowl down/alongsomething
- careen
- career
- gallop
- gun
- leg
- outsail
- pelt
- rush
- scamper
- scoot
- scrabble
- scramble
- scud
- shoot
- stampede
- ton
- trot
Idiom
pelt (down)
Examplesofpelted
pelted
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
A riot erupted as market womenpeltedthe foreign troops with their goods and tried to shame them by removing their clothes.
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The police arrested five persons for disorderly behaviour on this estate, but they were heavilypeltedwith bricks, bottles and sticks.
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Some of us have beenpeltedwith the filth of anonymous postcards and letters.
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As a result, departing tourists are liable to bepeltedwith confetti.
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I havepeltedhim with questions since, but have been able to get no redress.
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We must remember that she waspeltedwith rotten vegetables and the doors of the examination room were barricaded against her by the men.
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The tramcars which were passing through the streets where the crowd was collected werepeltedwith bricks.
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He waspeltedwith aeroplanes by the young people in the audience.
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I am being literallypeltedwith constituency letters from the other place.
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I have received letters which state that the incident actually happened in the airmen's mess and that the commanding officer waspeltedwith some very bad food.
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It was not very pleasant; our lives were threatened; we werepeltedwith eggs, which was less important, and the lives of some other people were lost.
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I waspeltedand sworn at.
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In retaliation, the police werepeltedwith eggs, rotten fruit, banners, and shards of glass.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is a world covered in snow and ice, with numerous moons, andpeltedby meteorites from a nearby asteroid belt.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The store was swept away, and the people taking shelter in the basement werepeltedto death by flying bricks and timbers.
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