Antonyms for peppering

Grammar : Verb

Spell : pep-er

Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɛp ər

Definition of peppering

Origin : Old English pipor, from an early West Germanic borrowing of Latin piper "pepper," from Greek piperi, probably (via Persian) from Middle Indic pippari, from Sanskrit pippali "long pepper." The Latin word is the source of German Pfeffer, Italian pepe, French poivre, Old Church Slavonic pipru, Lithuanian pipiras, Old Irish piobhar, Welsh pybyr, etc. Application to fruits of the capsicum family (unrelated, originally native of tropical America) is 16c.

As in intersperse : verb scatter
As in pelt : verb beat; throw hard
As in punctuate : verb lay stress on
As in riddle : verb perforate, permeate
As in season : verb flavor food
As in spot : verb mark, stain
As in sprinkle : verb scatter, disseminate
As in throw : verb propel something through the air
As in mottle : verb speckle
As in speckle : verb dot
As in dot : verb make spot(s)
As in flavor : verb add seasoning

Example sentences :

He talked of peppering his people as I would talk of peppering a capon.
Extract from : « Imaginary Conversations and Poems » by Walter Savage Landor

Maybe what she said to Pa made him go west after peppering your burglar.
Extract from : « The Grocery Man And Peck's Bad Boy » by George W. Peck

It was coming down in torrents, peppering the roof and the windows.
Extract from : « Johnny Ludlow, Second Series » by Mrs. Henry Wood

That must be the identical rock he squatted under while the Bushmen were peppering him.
Extract from : « Renshaw Fanning's Quest » by Bertram Mitford

Life is peppering me with good things this year, I could not be more grateful.
Extract from : « She Buildeth Her House » by Will Comfort

Come this way, Sue, and Luke, do the best you can at peppering the canoe in front of us!
Extract from : « Defending the Island » by James Otis

Followed such a peppering of that cliff as it had never had before.
Extract from : « Tenting To-night » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

And all these nice people who have been peppering us with shot thought we were the dynamiters.
Extract from : « The Man Who Was Thursday » by G. K. Chesterton

Morel put up his umbrella, and took pleasure from the peppering of the drops thereon.
Extract from : « Sons and Lovers » by David Herbert Lawrence

Dr. Solander, seeing this, gave him a peppering with small Shott, which sent him off and made them retire a Second time.
Extract from : « Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World » by James Cook

Synonyms for peppering

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