verb
- Use explosives on.
- usage: "The enemy has been shelling us all day"
- Create by using explosives.
- usage: "blast a passage through the mountain"
- Fall out of the pod or husk.
- usage: "The corn shelled"
- synonyms: shell
- Hit the pitches of hard and regularly.
- usage: "He shelled the pitcher for eight runs in the first inning"
- synonyms: shell
- Look for and collect shells by the seashore.
- synonyms: shell
- Come out better in a competition, race, or conflict.
- usage: "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"
- Remove from its shell or outer covering.
- usage: "shell the legumes"; "shell mussels"
- synonyms: shell
- Remove the husks from.
- usage: "husk corn"
adjective
- Of animals or fruits that have a shell. .
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