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verb [transitive] American English pronunciation: pepper /ˈpepər/ 
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present tense
I/you/we/theypepper
he/she/itpeppers
present participlepeppering
past tensepeppered
past participlepeppered
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  1. 1
    [often passive] to hit something many times and in many different places

    Bullets peppered UN airplanes.

    pepper something with something:

    They peppered his car with machine-gun fire.

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    1. a.
      to be in many different places all over a surface
      pepper something with something:

      His chin was peppered with gray stubble.

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    2. b.
      to fill something such as a speech or piece of writing with a lot of examples of something
      pepper something with something:

      a letter peppered with spelling mistakes

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