Antonyms for shell
ʃɛlshell

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1. • Ammunition
   • Animal Material
   • Bombard
   • Covering
   • Create
   • Egg
   • Emerge
   • Gather
   • Hit
   • Housing
   • Hull
   • Overcome
   • Racing Boat
   • Remove
   • Scute
   • Shield

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1. shellnoun

   ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun

   Synonyms:
   cuticle, racing shell, casing, case, eggshell, carapace, shield, scale, plate

2. shellnoun

   the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals

   Synonyms:
   cuticle, racing shell, casing, case, eggshell, carapace, shield, scale, plate

3. carapace, shell, cuticle, shieldnoun

   hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles

   Synonyms:
   casing, cuticle, racing shell, eggshell, case, epidermis, buckler, carapace, shield, scale, plate

4. shellnoun

   the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts

   Synonyms:
   cuticle, racing shell, casing, case, eggshell, carapace, shield, scale, plate

5. shell, eggshellnoun

   the exterior covering of a bird's egg

   Synonyms:
   cuticle, racing shell, casing, case, eggshell, carapace, shield, scale, plate

6. shellnoun

   a rigid covering that envelops an object

   "the satellite is covered with a smooth shell of ice"

   Synonyms:
   cuticle, racing shell, casing, case, eggshell, carapace, shield, scale, plate

7. shell, racing shellnoun

   a very light narrow racing boat

   Synonyms:
   cuticle, racing shell, casing, case, eggshell, carapace, shield, scale, plate

8. shell, case, casingnoun

   the housing or outer covering of something

   "the clock has a walnut case"

   Synonyms:
   cuticle, type, font, instance, pillow slip, case, eccentric, scale, guinea pig, event, fount, plate, casing, character, pillowcase, subject, example, cause, racing shell, causa, slip, compositor's case, caseful, grammatical case, eggshell, face, showcase, carapace, vitrine, display case, shield, sheath, typeface, typesetter's case, lawsuit, suit

9. plate, scale, shellnoun

   a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)

   Synonyms:
   scale leaf, scurf, cuticle, ordered series, exfoliation, graduated table, weighing machine, home base, case, racing shell, plateful, carapace, scale of measurement, dental plate, home, crustal plate, home plate, shield, musical scale, eggshell, denture, scale, casing, photographic plate, plate, collection plate

10. shellverb

    the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod

    Synonyms:
    cuticle, racing shell, casing, case, eggshell, carapace, shield, scale, plate

11. blast, shellverb

    use explosives on

    "The enemy has been shelling us all day"

    Synonyms:
    vanquish, shoot, knock down, beat, crush, crucify, blare, pillory, husk, nail, savage, trounce, boom, beat out, blast, smash

12. blast, shellverb

    create by using explosives

    "blast a passage through the mountain"

    Synonyms:
    vanquish, shoot, knock down, beat, crush, crucify, blare, pillory, husk, nail, savage, trounce, boom, beat out, blast, smash

13. shellverb

    fall out of the pod or husk

    "The corn shelled"

    Synonyms:
    beat, vanquish, crush, trounce, husk, beat out, blast

14. shellverb

    hit the pitches of hard and regularly

    "He shelled the pitcher for eight runs in the first inning"

    Synonyms:
    beat, vanquish, crush, trounce, husk, beat out, blast

15. shellverb

    look for and collect shells by the seashore

    Synonyms:
    beat, vanquish, crush, trounce, husk, beat out, blast

16. beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquishverb

    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"

    Synonyms:
    tucker out, reproof, wash up, chide, thump out, mystify, pound, tap out, lash, mash, call on the carpet, ticktack, reprimand, pulsate, amaze, thump, flog, smash, stick, beat up, beat, trounce, outfox, thrum, husk, jam, slash, berate, lecture, strap, dumbfound, stupefy, exhaust, overreach, flap, rag, crush, blast, oppress, outwit, bewilder, dress down, squelch, squeeze, scramble, remonstrate, flummox, vanquish, get, perplex, whip, outsmart, baffle, jaw, rebuke, pose, vex, call down, suppress, lambast, circumvent, work over, chew up, bunk, gravel, drum, squash, chew out, take to task, welt, break down, puzzle, lather, bawl out, quiver, tucker, lambaste, demolish, ticktock, beat out, have words, scold, tick, nonplus

17. shellverb

    remove from its shell or outer covering

    "shell the legumes"; "shell mussels"

    Synonyms:
    beat, vanquish, crush, trounce, husk, beat out, blast

18. husk, shellverb

    remove the husks from

    "husk corn"

    Synonyms:
    beat out, beat, blast, trounce, crush, vanquish, husk

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1. shellnoun

   Synonyms:
   shuck, putamen, test, testa, episperm, spermoderm

   Associated words:
   scleroid, enucleate, enucleation, inenucleable

2. shellnoun

   Synonyms:
   armature, case, exoskeleton, shale, carapace, plastron, cockle, conch, periwinkle, cowrie, whelk, mitre shell, abilone shell, exuviae (cast-off), conchite (fossil)

   Associated words:
   conchology, conchologist, malacology, testaceous, cockled, mollusk, conchiferous, conchiform conchometer, conchometry, crustacean, exuvial, exuviate, exuviation, loricata, bivalve, multivalve, univalve

3. shellnoun

   Synonyms:
   framework, bomb, torpedo, shrapnel, grenade

4. shellverb

   Synonyms:
   hull, shuck, shale, enucleate, bombard, besiege

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1. within

   shell is outer part and within is inner part

   Submitted by anonymous on April 19, 2020  

How to use shell in a sentence?

1. David Stockton:

   The best response is not to go into a defensive shell, but instead the Fed should attempt to influence the terms of any changes that are coming.

2. Adam Matthews:

   With this latest important step in Shell’s transition from an oil and gas producer to be an energy company, a multi-decadal transition is clearly underway.

3. Neil Shah:

   Most Chinese smartphone buyers are not ready to shell out beyond $1,000 for a phone, this left a gap in the below-$800 segment, which Chinese vendors grabbed with both hands.

4. Dan Leader:

   The effect of what Shell is trying to do is to kill off the case, it's only because of the pressure of litigation that the clean-up is getting back on track.

5. Isaac Newton, From Brewster, Memoirs of Newton (1855):

   I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

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