pelt

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

pelt [pelt pelts pelted pelting] verb, noun BrE [pelt] NAmE [pelt]
verb
1. transitive ~ sb (with sth) to attack sb by throwing things at them
•The children pelted him with snowballs.
•We were pelted with rotten tomatoes.
2. intransitive ~ (down) (of rain)to fall very heavily
•By now the rain was pelting down.
3. intransitive + adv./prep. (informal)to run somewhere very fast
Syn: ↑dash
•We pelted down the hill after the car.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
v. late 15th cent.n. Middle English pellet ‘skin’ Old French pel ‘skin’ Latin pellis ‘skin’ peltry

Example Bank:
•I drove home with the rain pelting through the window.
•Raindrops the size of golf balls were pelting down on her.
Idiom: ↑full pelt
 
noun
the skin of an animal, especially with the fur or hair still on it

Word Origin:
v. late 15th cent.n. Middle English pellet ‘skin’ Old French pel ‘skin’ Latin pellis ‘skin’ peltry
 

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  hide, skin, fur, pour, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets, pepper, bombard