Synonyms of pelts

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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

Instead, front and center have been the interests of a business raising animals to skin for luxury pelts to ship overseas. — Nat Lash, ProPublica, 23 Oct. 2026

In a letter to Defence Minister Luke Pollard this week, 18 MPs and one member of the House of Lords urged the government to stop using bear pelts sourced from legal culls in Canada and instead adopt faux-fur alternatives. — James Frater, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2026

The new policy prohibits fur from animals killed specifically for their pelts, including mink, fox, rabbit, chinchilla and coyote. — ABC News, 14 Sep. 2026

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

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

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