body vs pelt

body

verb
  • To murder someone. 

  • To embody. 

  • To give body or shape to something. 

  • To construct the bodywork of a car. 

  • To utterly defeat someone. 

  • to hard counter a particular character build or play style. Frequently used in the passive voice form, get bodied by. 

noun
  • A person. 

  • A human being, regarded as marginalized or oppressed. 

  • A corpse. 

  • The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessories. 

  • The content of a letter, message, or other printed or electronic document, as distinct from signatures, salutations, headers, and so on. 

  • A bodysuit. 

  • A group of people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass. 

  • A three-dimensional object, such as a cube or cone. 

  • An organisation, company or other authoritative group. 

  • The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul. 

  • A unified collection of details, knowledge or information. 

  • The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters. 

  • Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.). 

  • The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremities (limbs, head, tail). 

  • Any physical object or material thing. 

  • The shank of a type, or the depth of the shank (by which the size is indicated). 

  • The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism. 

  • Substance; physical presence. 

  • What's a body gotta do to get a drink around here? 

  • An agglomeration of some substance, especially one that would be otherwise uncountable. 

pelt

verb
  • To assail (someone) with harsh words in speech or writing; to abuse, to insult. 

  • Chiefly followed by at: to (continuously) throw (missiles) at. 

  • Especially of hailstones, rain, or snow: to beat down or fall forcefully or heavily; to rain down. 

  • To repeatedly beat or hit (someone or something). 

  • To remove the skin from (an animal); to skin. 

  • To force (someone or something) to move using blows or the throwing of missiles. 

  • Of a number of small objects (such as raindrops), or the sun's rays: to beat down or fall on (someone or something) in a shower. 

  • To move rapidly, especially in or on a conveyance. 

  • Chiefly followed by from: to remove (the skin) from an animal. 

  • To bombard (someone or something) with missiles. 

noun
  • A blow or stroke from something thrown. 

  • A tattered or worthless piece of clothing; a rag. 

  • The skin of an animal with the hair or wool on; either a raw or undressed hide, or a skin preserved with the hair or wool on it (sometimes worn as a garment with minimal modification). 

  • The fur or hair of a living animal. 

  • The skin of an animal (especially a goat or sheep) with the hair or wool removed, often in preparation for tanning. 

  • Human skin, especially when bare; also, a person's hair. 

  • A beating or falling down of hailstones, rain, or snow in a shower. 

  • An act of moving quickly; a rush. 

  • Anything in a ragged and worthless state; rubbish, trash. 

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