Definitions for pelting

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pelting pelt·ing

Spelling: [pel-ting]

IPA: /ˈpɛl tɪŋ/

Pelting is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 161 anagrams from letters in pelting (egilnpt).

Definitions for pelting

noun

1. the act of pelting.
2. a vigorous stroke; whack.
3. a blow with something thrown.
4. speed.
5. an unrelenting or repeated beating, as of rain or wind.

adjective

1. paltry; petty; mean.

verb (used with object)

1. to attack or assail with repeated blows or with missiles.
2. to throw (missiles).
3. to drive by blows or missiles:
4. to assail vigorously with words, questions, etc.
5. to beat or rush against with repeated forceful blows:

verb (used without object)

1. to strike blows; beat with force or violence.
2. to throw missiles.
3. to hurry.
4. to beat or pound unrelentingly:
5. to cast abuse.

Origin of pelting

1530-40; perhaps dial. pelt rags, rubbish (akin to Danish pjalt rag) + -ing². See paltry

Examples for pelting

Several hundred people gathered near the Japanese embassy in Beijing, some pelting it with water bottles and eggs.

The other cab was pelting after him with all the enthusiasm of a hound on a fresh trail.

The family said the man was picnicking; the Border Patrol said the victim was pelting the agent with rocks.

And there she sat, pelting the two of them with green apples.'

His masters would then amuse themselves by pelting him with bones.

And from that cloud showered these hot, pelting pebbles of pumice stone.

Or one year before, a then 16-year-old Bieber narrowly avoided arrest after pelting a Maryland state trooper with a water balloon.

Some one, apparently, had been pelting the pulpit with them.

He saw how I was encumbered, and he must have felt the pelting rain.

The place looked pretty bleak in the pelting snow and final minutes of wintry gray light.