n. 25B6; verb
they pelted him with snowballs : BOMBARD, shower, attack, assail, pepper.
rain was pelting down : POUR DOWN, teem down, stream down, tip down, rain cats and dogs, rain hard; Brit. informal bucket down, come down in stair rods.
(informal) they pelted into the factory : DASH, run, race, rush, sprint, bolt, dart, career, charge, shoot, hurtle, hare, fly, speed, zoom, streak; hasten, hurry; informal tear, belt, hotfoot it, scoot, leg it, go like a bat out of hell; Brit. informal bomb; N. Amer. informal hightail it.