1 echar poner pimienta a;or sazonar con pimienta I salted and peppered them and cooked them in butter
2 (bombard) acribillar the walls were peppered with bullet holes las paredes habían sido acribilladas a balazos
a burst of gunfire from inside the corridor peppered the wall opposite him the land adjacent to the village is now peppered with villas and holiday homes faces peppered with cuts he was wounded in both legs and severely peppered with shrapnel suddenly the garden was peppered with pellets they like to pepper you in the legs at about fifty yards he felt tiny bits of grit and sand peppering his knees the road was peppered with glass
to pepper sth/sb with bullets acribillar algo/a algn a balazos; to pepper sb with questions acribillar a algn a preguntas
reporters peppered her with questions about what was happening in Germany journalists who peppered her with tricky questions about devaluation were out of luck Malcolm found himself staying after class, peppering the instructor with questions
(sprinkle) salpicar his English is heavily peppered with Americanisms su inglés está salpicado de americanismos
these types of expressions pepper our language they peppered their reports with party jargon Mr. Bush peppered his speech with warnings his criticism was peppered with phrases like "scientifically unacceptable", "politically disastrous" the bill arrives peppered with mysterious extra charges
to pepper a work with quotations salpicar una obra de citas; his hair is peppered with grey tiene el pelo salpicado de canas
a handsome figure with silver-grey peppering his brown hair
