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pelt

verb
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Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they pelt
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he / she / it pelts
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past simple pelted
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past participle pelted
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-ing form pelting
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  1. [transitive] pelt somebody (with something) to attack somebody by throwing things at them投物攻击；向…投掷
    • The children pelted him with snowballs.孩子们向他投掷雪球。🔊🔊
    • We were pelted with rotten tomatoes.我们被烂番茄砸死了。
  2. [intransitive] pelt (down) (of rain雨) to fall very heavily倾泻；下得很大
    • By now the rain was pelting down.到现在为止，大雨正在降。
    • I drove home with the rain pelting through the window.我开车回家，雨水从窗户射出。
    • Raindrops the size of golf balls were pelting down on her.高尔夫球大小的雨滴向她扑来。
  3. [intransitive] + adv./prep. (informal) to run somewhere very fast飞跑 synonym dash
    • We pelted down the hill after the car.我们飞奔下山追赶那辆汽车。🔊🔊
    4. Word Originverb late 15th cent.: of unknown origin.

pelt

noun
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  1. the skin of an animal, especially with the fur or hair still on it（动物的）皮，毛皮Topics Animalsc2
    Word Originnoun Middle English: either from obsolete pellet ‘skin’, from an Old French diminutive of pel ‘skin’, from Latin pellis ‘skin’, or a back-formation from peltry.
Idioms
(at) full pelt/tilt
  1. as fast as possible急速；疾速；尽快
    • He ran full pelt to the bus stop.他满头大牛皮跑到了公共汽车站。