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verb | noun peltpelt1 /pɛlt/ verb ETYMOLOGYpelt1Origin: 1400-1500 Origin unknown VERB TABLEpelt |
Present | I, you, we, they | pelt | | he, she, it | pelts | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | pelted | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have pelted | | he, she, it | has pelted | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had pelted | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will pelt | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have pelted |
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Present | I | am pelting | | he, she, it | is pelting | | you, we, they | are pelting | Past | I, he, she, it | was pelting | | you, we, they | were pelting | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been pelting | | he, she, it | has been pelting | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been pelting | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be pelting | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been pelting |
1[transitive] to attack someone or something by throwing a lot of things at him or her: pelt somebody/something with something Angry residents pelted Baker’s car with tomatoes.2[intransitive, transitive] if rain or snow pelts a place or person, or if it pelts down, it is raining or snowing very heavily: the cold rain that pelts this region in March3[intransitive always + adv./prep.] informal to run somewhere very fast: Joey pelted down the street. verb | noun peltpelt2 noun [countable] ETYMOLOGYpelt2Origin: (1-2) 1400-1500 Perhaps from peltry skins, furs (15-19 centuries), from Anglo-French pelterie, from Latin pellis skin (3) 1800-1900 ➔ PELT1 1the skin of a dead animal, especially with the fur or hair still on it: mink pelts2the fur or hair of a living animal |