pelting

Other forms: peltings

Definitions of pelting
  1. noun
    anything happening rapidly or in quick successive
    “a pelting of insults”
    synonyms: rain
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    type of:
    chronological sequence, chronological succession, sequence, succession, successiveness
    a following of one thing after another in time
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