American English pronunciation
How to pronounce shelled
IPA transcription: ['ʃɛld]
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Verb
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come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
“Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship”
“We beat the competition”
“Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game”
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use explosives on
“The enemy has been shelling us all day”
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create by using explosives
“blast a passage through the mountain”
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fall out of the pod or husk
“The corn shelled”
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hit the pitches of hard and regularly
“He shelled the pitcher for eight runs in the first inning”
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look for and collect shells by the seashore
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remove from its shell or outer covering
“shell the legumes”
“shell mussels”
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remove the husks from
“husk corn”
Adjective
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of animals or fruits that have a shell
Usage examples
- This is particularly true of unshelled foods, such as thistle seed and suet.
- The U-boat had shelled a Norwegian merchantman off New Jersey.
- The egg are hard shelled but translucent at the time of egg-laying.
- Phenotypically, "Oncomelania hupensis" can be separated into ribbed- and smooth- shelled morphotypes.
- Shelled molluscs were placed in the Testacea, together with barnacles and tube worms.
- Almonds are sold shelled or unshelled.
- He was apparently killed when naval forces loyal to Ali Nasir shelled Aden.