Pelt

Synonyms: assail, attack, batter, belt, blast, blitz, bomb, bombard, boogie, bucket, bucket down, bustle, buzz, cannonade, career, charge, chase, clip, coat, come down in stair rods, cut along, dash, dive, drag/tear/haul ass, enfilade, fell, fire a broadside at, flash, fleece, fly, fur, fusillade, hare, hasten, hide, hightail, hurry, jump, kite, leap, pepper, pour, race, rain cats and dogs, rain hard, rain something down on, rain stair rods, rake, run, rush, scoot, scorch, scramble, scud, scurry, scutter, shift, shoot, shower, skin, skip, skite, speed, sprint, stampede, strafe, streak, stream, sweep, tear, teem, throw at, whip, whizz, whoosh, wing, zap, zip, zoom

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Pelt

(verb) hurl missiles repeatedly at; “two boys pelted him with rotten apples”
(verb) hurl (something) at someone or something; “she spotted four boys pelting stones at ducks”
(of rain, hail, or snow) fall quickly and very heavily; “the rain was pelting down”
(informal) run somewhere very quickly; “I pelted across the road”
(Phrases) full pelt — as fast as possible; “I ran downstairs at full pelt”
(noun) the skin of an animal with the fur, wool, or hair still on it; “traders brought reindeer pelts”
(Phrases) in one’s pelt — naked.“they came across Henn, standing in his pelt by the river”

Pelt (पेलत / पलट / पेल्ट) meaning in Hindi (English to Hindi meaning)

झपटना, झोंकना, डालना, पीटना, फेंकना, मारना, फेंक कर मारना, ताबड़तोड़ भागना, मूसलाधार होना, तेज़ी से आगे बढ़ना, खाल, चमड़ा, चोट, मार, कच्चा चमड़ा, ताबड़तोड़ भागना, मूसलाधार होना, कूड़ा-कर्कट, फेंकने का कार्य

Pelt origin

Middle English: either from obsolete pellet ‘skin’, from an Old French diminutive of pel ‘skin’, from Latin pellis ‘skin’, or a back-formation from peltry.

Pelt in a sentence (word usage in recent Hindu newspaper)

Miscreants pelt stones on new Train 18 during trial run.
Hailstorm, rain pelt down on rabi crops.
New Zealand canoe hire shop housed Tassie tiger pelt worth $250000.
Storms pelt Shaver Lake with snow and rain mix.
An animal’s pelt can be affected by a number of environmental factors.

Mnemonic trick to remember the meaning of pelt

pelt – pelt stones

Pelt pronunciation

Gluttony

Synonyms: binge eating, daciousness, edacity, esurience, gluttonousness, gourmandism, gourmandizing, greed, greediness, gulosity, gutsiness, hoggishness, hyperphagia, insatiability, overconsumption, overeating, piggishness, polyphagia, voraciousness, voracity, wolfishness

Antonyms: abstinence, moderation

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Gluttony

(noun) habitual greed or excess in eating; “she said plumpness was a sign of gluttony in most cases”

Gluttony (ग्लटनी) meaning in Hindi (English to Hindi meaning)

पेटूपन, लालच, लोलुपता

Gluttony Origin

Middle English: from Old French glutonie, from gluton ‘glutton’.

Gluttony in a sentence (word usage in recent Hindu newspaper)

Pope says forget greed and gluttony at Christmas, go for simple love.
Muskoka fitness trainer gives top 10 ways to combat holiday gluttony.
After the holiday gluttony, many people are trying to get back on track when it comes to fitness and wellness.
Eating right: Holidays don’t have to be the ‘season of gluttony‘.
Gluttony really could turn you into a fathead.

Mnemonic trick to remember the meaning of gluttony

Gluttony = glued to ‘ton’ of weight – ‘petupan’

Gluttony pronunciation

Retrieve

Synonyms: ameliorate, amend, better, bring back, correct, deal with, fetch, fix, get back, have returned, improve, make better, make good, mend, put to rights, reclaim, recoup, recover, rectify, recuperate put right, redeem, redress, regain (possession of), remedy, repair, replevy, repossess, rescue, resolve, restore, salvage, set right, set to rights, solve, sort out, straighten out, win back

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Retrieve

(verb) get or bring (something) back from somewhere; “I was sent to retrieve the balls from his garden”
(verb) (of a dog) find and bring back (game that has been shot); “labradors are used to retrieve the birds after the flush”
(verb) reel or bring in a fishing line; “when he reaches the breakers, with you retrieving furiously, he’ll probably change course”
(verb) find or extract (information stored in a computer); “other features include the ability to store, update, retrieve, and print your data”
(verb) recall (something); “the police hope to encourage him to retrieve forgotten memories”
(verb) put right or improve (an unwelcome situation); “he made one last desperate attempt to retrieve the situation”
(noun) an act of retrieving something, especially game that has been shot; “watch the dog make the long retrieves”
(noun) the possibility of recovery; “he ruined himself beyond retrieve”

Retrieve (रिट्रीव / रीट्रीव) meaning in Hindi (English to Hindi meaning)

वापस पा लेना, बचाना, सुधारना, पता लगाना, लौटा देना

Retrieve Origin

late Middle English (in the sense ‘find lost game’): from Old French retroeve-, stressed stem of retrover ‘find again’.

Retrieve in a sentence (word usage in recent Hindu newspaper editorial)

Update: Woman injured in April accident to retrieve dog has died.
Everest rescuers retrieve bodies of two Indian climbers.
Mount Everest rescue team attempts to retrieve body of climber.
Man who drowned trying to retrieve purse in Lady Bird Lake identified.
Search suspended for man who jumped off boat to retrieve hat.

Mnemonic trick to remember the meaning of retrieve

Labrador Retriever Yaad rakho…. ball feko leke (retrieve) aayega

Retrieve Pronunciation

Prudish

Synonyms: formal, goody-goody, governessy, Grundyish, mimsy, moralistic, niminy-piminy, old-maid, old-maidish, priggish, prim, prim and proper, prissy, puritan, puritanical, schoolmarmish, schoolmistressy, starchy, strait-laced, stuffy, Victorian

Antonyms: broad-minded, liberal, permissive

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Prudish

(adj) having or revealing a tendency to be easily shocked by matters relating to sex or nudity; excessively concerned with sexual propriety; “his grandmother was a rather prudish woman”

Prudish (प्रूडिश) meaning in Hindi (English to Hindi Dictionary)

कपटलज्जालु, पाखंडी, पाखण्डी

Prudish Origin

1710-20; prude + -ish

Prudish in a sentence (word usage in recent newspaper)

Fair, and I am not being prudish. After all, kiss is an expression of love.
No sex, please: Sandeep Kumar pays the price of prudish politics.
Of sex and other mundane things: Are Indians still prudish?
Then there was my mother, brought up by prudish German nuns.
At the risk of sounding prudish, let me also state another problem I had with the film’s depiction of nudity, sex and the so-called erotica.

Prudish Pronunciation

Mundane

Synonyms: (plain) vanilla, banal, banausic, boring, carnal, common, commonplace, customary, day-to-day, dull, earthly, everyday, fleshly, hackneyed, hacky, humdrum, material, monotonous, non-spiritual, normal, ordinary, pedestrian, platitudinous, prosaic, quotidian, regular, repetitious, repetitive, routine, run-of-the-mill, secular, sensual, stale, sublunary, tedious, temporal, terrestrial, tiresome, trite, typical, uneventful, unexciting, unimaginative, uninteresting, unremarkable, unvaried, unvarying, usual, vanilla, wearisome, workaday, worldly

Antonyms: extraordinary, imaginative, spiritual

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Mundane

(adj) lacking interest or excitement; dull; “the mundane aspects of daily life”
(adj) of this earthly world rather than a heavenly or spiritual one; “the mundane world”

Mundane (मन्डेन / मन्डैन) meaning in Hindi (English to Hindi Dictionary)

नीरस, साधारण, सांसारिक

Mundane Origin

late Middle English (in sense 2): from Old French mondain, from late Latin mundanus, from Latin mundus ‘world’. Sense 1 dates from the late 19th century.

Mundane in a sentence (word usage in recent newspaper)

Ditch the Mundane: 5 Exciting Ways to Cook with Corn.
He tells touching tales from life’s mundane episodes.
Mr. Alex’s poems are ruminations over the seemingly mundane and the ordinary, which often attain extraordinary dimensions.
‘Saanson Ke’ is the typically mundane, avoidable melancholy-driven song, that one has come to associate with a Pritam-KK collaboration.
Indo-US military logistics pact is mundane: Richard Verma.

Mnemonic trick to remember the meaning of mundane

monday = mundane .. another boring day..

Mundane Pronunciation

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