Synonyms for shell
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1. shell(noun)

   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. shell(noun)

   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, shield(noun)

   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. shell(noun)

   the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts

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

5. shell, eggshell(noun)

   the exterior covering of a bird's egg

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

6. shell(noun)

   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 shell(noun)

   a very light narrow racing boat

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

8. shell, case, casing(noun)

   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, shell(noun)

   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. shell(verb)

    the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod

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

11. blast, shell(verb)

    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, shell(verb)

    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. shell(verb)

    fall out of the pod or husk

    "The corn shelled"

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

14. shell(verb)

    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. shell(verb)

    look for and collect shells by the seashore

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

16. beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish(verb)

    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. shell(verb)

    remove from its shell or outer covering

    "shell the legumes"; "shell mussels"

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

18. husk, shell(verb)

    remove the husks from

    "husk corn"

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

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. shell(n.)

   Synonyms:
   case, capsule, outer covering

2. shell(n.)

   Synonyms:
   bomb, hollow ball

3. shell(n.)

   Synonyms:
   frame-work

4. shell(n.)

   Synonyms:
   lyre, stringed instrument

5. shell(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   take out of the shell, strip the shell from, hull

6. shell(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   bombard

7. shell(v. n.)

   Synonyms:
   exfoliate, fall off, peel off, shell off

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. shell(n)

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

   Associated words:
   scleroid, enucleate, enucleation, inenucleable

2. shell(n)

   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. shell(n)

   Synonyms:
   framework, bomb, torpedo, shrapnel, grenade

4. shell(v)

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

PPDB, the paraphrase database(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. List of paraphrases:

   carapace, hull, eggshell, 'shell, reservoir, skal, envelope, tank, shells, misprint, typo, projectile, shellfish, container, coke, fictitious, schell, walnuts, almonds, bomb

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How to use shell in a sentence?

1. Anonymous:

   Shell to DOS... Come in DOS, do you copy Shell to DOS...

2. Roger Sloboda:

   Considering the recent stuff at USC, I feel sorry for Carol jumping into that mess. But I think shell clean it up, she is a scientist and shell look at the data, figure out what happened and how to fix it.

3. The Treasury Department:

   This money-laundering network worked closely with high-ranking government officials in Venezuela, resident agents in Panama, and an Andorran lawyer to establish Panamanian shell companies.

4. Isaac Newton:

   I seem to have been like a child playing on the sea shore, finding now and then a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me.

5. Richard Schager:

   When Lehman filed its bankruptcy petition, it listed 20,000 former employees and told them they had contract claims, it wasn't until the big creditors took over Lehman's shell that the squeeze of employees began, including the recharacterization of contract claims as securities claims.

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