- rain, pelting - anything happening rapidly or in quick successive; "a rain of bullets"; "a pelting of insults"
--1 is a kind of sequence, chronological sequence, succession, successiveness, chronological succession
Derived form: verb pelt1
- pelt, bombard - cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile; "They pelted each other with snowballs"
--1 is one way to throw
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun pelter2, noun pelting1
Somebody ----s somebody with something
- pepper, pelt - attack and bombard with or as if with missiles; "pelt the speaker with questions"
--2 is one way to attack, assail
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun pelter2
Somebody ----s somebody with something
- pour, pelt, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets - rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!"
--3 is one way to rain, rain down
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun pelter1
It was pelting all day long