Synonyms of pelts

pelts 1 of 3

noun (1)

plural of pelt

as in blows

a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument

gave the dog a sharp pelt on the nose with her rolled up newspaper

Synonyms & Similar Words

• blows
• punches
• pounds
• thuds
• swipes
• thumps
• hits
• slaps
• whacks
• strokes
• licks
• knocks
• pokes
• bangs
• spanks
• smacks
• clips
• hooks
• lashes
• beats
• chops
• bats
• socks
• belts
• claps
• hands
• cuffs
• slams
• welts
• swats
• haymakers
• slugs
• thwacks
• stripes
• raps
• switches
• stingers
• clouts
• lickings
• fillips
• bops
• boxes
• kicks
• knees
• dabs
• busts
• buffets
• biffs
• cracks
• picks
• plumps
• whams
• bashes
• smashes
• hacks
• whops
• wallops
• beatings
• douses
• larrups
• swings
• shivers
• counters
• whips
• counterstrokes
• counterpunches
• rights
• rabbit punches
• counterblows
• uppercuts
• lefts
• sucker punches
• body blows
• roundhouses
• whippings
• batterings
• knockdowns
• sidewinders
• thrashings
• crunchers
• pastings
• KOs
• bastinadoes
• right-handers
• kayos
• drubbings
• knockouts
• wallopings
• one-twos

pelts

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noun (2)

plural of pelt

as in furs

the outer covering of an animal removed for its commercial value

caught beavers and sold the pelts to fur traders

Synonyms & Similar Words

• furs
• leathers
• hides
• seals
• beavers
• sheep
• skins
• raccoon
• rabbit
• mink
• otters
• marten
• badgers
• deerskins
• sealskins
• muskrat
• sheepskins
• sables
• goatskins
• chinchillas
• chamois
• ermines
• lambskins
• foxes
• bearskins
• fleeces
• fishers
• calfskins
• pigskins
• snakeskins
• cowhides
• buckskins
• alligators
• rawhides
• horsehides
• crocodiles
• coonskins
• kidskins
• doeskins
• moutons
• Persian lambs
• suedes
• sharkskins
• patent leathers
• karakuls
• kolinskies
• cordovans
• moroccos

pelts

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verb

present tense third-person singular of pelt

1

as in races

to proceed or move quickly

pelted away when the cops arrived

Synonyms & Similar Words

• races
• rushes
• flies
• scurries
• zips
• speeds
• travels
• hurries
• drives
• chases
• trots
• jumps
• barrels
• blows
• runs
• darts
• rams
• tears
• bowls
• buzzes
• scoots
• hares
• dashes
• scuttles
• rips
• blasts
• bolts
• belts
• shoots
• bundles
• jets
• rustles
• steps
• humps
• motors
• zooms
• rockets
• breezes
• hustles
• cracks (on)
• whirls
• nips
• bombs
• courses
• hurls
• blazes
• jogs
• hies
• careers
• bustles
• beats it
• hastens
• hurtles
• cannonballs
• highballs
• whisks
• steps on it
• makes tracks
• beetles
• careens
• gets a move on
• shakes a leg
• gallops
• hotfoots (it)
• streaks
• scuds
• scampers
• flits
• stampedes
• arrows
• sprints
• whizzes
• accelerates
• scuffles
• outruns
• overtakes
• steps out
• catches up
• outstrips
• outpaces
• quickens
• beelines
• fast-forwards

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• creeps
• pokes
• crawls
• drags
• hangs (around or out)
• lags
• lingers
• pokes
• loiters
• strolls
• tarries
• dallies
• dawdles
• saunters
• shuffles
• ambles
• lumbers
• slows (down or up)
• plods
• decelerates
• dillydallies

2

as in throws

to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm

pelted snowballs at each other while waiting for the bus

Synonyms & Similar Words

• throws
• tosses
• hurls
• flings
• fires
• slings
• bowls
• launches
• casts
• guns
• pegs
• heaves
• catapults
• pitches
• dashes
• darts
• lofts
• chucks
• rifles
• lobs
• lets fly
• hurtles
• rolls
• hooks
• flips
• passes
• shoots
• precipitates
• projects
• thrusts
• bucks
• ejects
• propels
• impels

3

as in hides

to strike repeatedly

pelted the other kids with pebbles

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hides
• licks
• pounds
• lashes
• whips
• bats
• beats
• hits
• slaps
• punches
• knocks
• batters
• thumps
• attacks
• mauls
• does
• chops
• smashes
• assaults
• spanks
• paddles
• whales
• raids
• hammers
• belts
• tans
• slams
• boxes
• clubs
• bludgeons
• slates
• pummels
• bashes
• wounds
• threshes
• curries
• bastes
• works over
• laces
• punches out
• switches
• wallops
• lathers
• thrashes
• buffets
• storms
• whacks
• flogs
• belabors
• smacks
• swipes
• drubs
• fibs
• slogs
• pommels
• lambastes
• roughs (up)
• socks
• cracks
• leathers
• birches
• tromps
• rushes
• whops
• swats
• messes (up)
• beats up on
• descends (on or upon)
• lams
• thwacks
• whups
• straps
• cuffs
• clouts
• jumps (on)
• pastes
• bungs up
• cudgels
• cowhides
• canes
• busts
• lays on
• whams
• lacerates
• flagellates
• scourges
• clobbers
• assails
• besets
• pounces (on or upon)
• horsewhips
• gores
• rawhides
• mutilates
• whomps
• maims
• blackjacks
• pistol-whips
• mangles
• fustigates

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of pelts

Noun

Despite the early date, the pelts were thick and lush with guard hairs reaching 11 inches. — Ron Spomer, Outdoor Life, 19 Aug. 2026

River otters were hunted by the thousands for their pelts in the 17th and 18th centuries, according to the Sacramento Zoo’s page about the animal. — Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2026

After roughly 30 years, animal pelts can lose moisture and become brittle, meaning a coat that looks perfectly fine on the rack may begin to tear at stress points or shed once worn regularly. — Rachel Silva, Martha Stewart, 14 Aug. 2026

The company does a brisk business in sealskin pelts, hats, mittens and earrings, as well as fancy jackets that cost more than $1,000. — Ivor Prickett, New York Times, 24 July 2026

Others drape seal intestines over their fins or take turns tossing sea lion pelts into the air, Shields said. — Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 23 July 2026

These passages are called portages, a term derived from English and French trappers who, alongside Indigenous nations like the Ojibwe and the Dakota, collected pelts for the lucrative fur trade from the late 17th century to the early 19th. — John Bowe, Travel + Leisure, 11 June 2026

The beautiful array of their divergent sizes and pelts coalesced as oils on canvas and rendered their exploits almost dreamlike. — Literary Hub, 20 May 2026

There’s no alternative; there are too many tasty cadavers, plus squirrel pelts coughed up by hawks in the trees after they’ve been picked clean of meat and tissue. — Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 22 Apr. 2026

Verb

Not so much because Paul puts on-again, off-again partner Dakota Mortensen into a headlock and then pelts him with metal bar stools — sadly, this is a scene that would not be out of place on many reality shows — but because a small child is in the room. — Culture Critic, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2026