Shell
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Shell [shel]

NOUN, VERB

Noun

  • A hard rigid usually large covering of an animal.
  • The outside part of a fruit or seed.
  • Something like an external structure that resembles a shell.
  • A casing without substance.
  • The hard exterior of an egg.
  • A hard enclosing cover.

Verb

  • To take out of the shell.
  • To fall out of the shell.
  • To cast the external covering.
  • To gather shells from a beach.
Example

"My mother collected shells at the beach."

"My wife shelled the nuts and ate them."

Synonyms

Noun: Carapace, Frame, Crust, Case, Chassis, Framework, Carcass, Hull, Husk, Integument, Nut, Plastron, Pod, Scale, Shard, Shuck, Skeleton

Verb: Peel, Bark, Skin, Scale, Bomb, Attack, Pound, Blitzkrieg

Antonyms

Noun: Core, Center, Inside, Interior, Middle, Interior, Inside