Pelting — synonyms, definition

1. pelting (Noun)

rain

pelting (Noun) — Anything happening rapidly or in quick succession. ex. "a pelting of insults"

chronological sequence chronological succession sequence succession successiveness

2. pelting (Verb)

bombarding bucketing chucking chucking it down peppering pissing pissing down pouring raining buckets raining cats and dogs streaming teeming tipping

pelting (Verb) — Cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile. ex. "They pelted each other with snowballs"

pelting (Verb) — Attack and bombard with or as if with missiles. ex. "pelt the speaker with questions"

pelting (Verb) — Rain heavily. ex. "Put on your rain coat-- it's pelting outside!"

assailing attacking raining raining down throwing winging egging lapidating sheeting sluicing sluicing down snowballing