bepepperv.
/bɪˈpɛpə/ transitive. To pelt with shot, sand, etc.; or with blows thickly falling.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > strike [verb (transitive)] > shower with blows
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > assail with missiles [verb (transitive)] > of missile: hit > hit with missile > repeatedly > with small missiles
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1612 S. Rowlands Knaue of Harts sig. C He is be-peper'd ouer head and eares.
1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VIII. v. 14 Grinding the faces of the impotent—..be-peppering their noses.
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