Synonyms for shell
ʃɛlshell

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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

Matched Categories

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

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. shellnoun

   Synonyms:
   case, capsule, outer covering

2. shellnoun

   Synonyms:
   bomb, hollow ball

3. shellnoun

   Synonyms:
   frame-work

4. shellnoun

   Synonyms:
   lyre, stringed instrument

5. shellverb

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

6. shellverb

   Synonyms:
   bombard

7. shellverb

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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

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

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "shell":

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

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1. Dave Marver:

   And so what we’re doing rather than working to replace the shell of the combat helmet, which is good at ballistic protection, we’re actually replacing the inner padding, which is currently just foam.

2. John Venable:

   The munition with knives has been around since at least the Vietnam War.The military term for the warhead is flechettes, which are dart-like submunitions that are released and spread out in flight as an anti-personnel device, munitions have had a variety of warheads since before the Civil War, where they used everything from classic exploding cannonballs, todumbbell-shaped projectiles and grapeshot, which was basically shotgun-shell BBs (only much larger) that used mass and velocity as the engagement mechanism.

3. Ethan Studenic:

   Once Morgan got a little closer, I opened the shell up.

4. Royal Dutch Shell:

   The evaluation concluded that for Shell, the development of the project does not fit with the company's strategy, particularly in the economic climate prevailing in the energy industry.

5. Matthew Gray:

   The oyster seals this irritant off by wrapping the foreign object in shell material.