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shelled

[ sheld ]

/ ʃɛld /

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adjective

having the shell removed: shelled pecans.

(especially of field corn, grain, etc.) removed from the ear or husk.

having or enclosed in a shell.

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Origin of shelled

First recorded in 1570–80; shell + -ed²

OTHER WORDS FROM shelled

un·shelled, adjective

Words nearby shelled

shellback, shellbark, shell bean, shell company, shellcracker, shelled, sheller, Shelley, Shelleyan, Shelley, Percy Bysshe, shellfire

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How to use shelled in a sentence

He spent two lost and traumatic years in the minors, getting shelled in Miami and Rochester.
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Ukrainian forces in this area have also been regularly shelled from Russian territory.
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Somebody said the laundry shelled out twenty-one thousand dollars in home run money that year.
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Once, during the war, he shelled out the cash to hire a band on Christmas Day.
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The Petrel then took up position and shelled the fort with varying result, followed by the Raleigh.
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The insurgents then brought field-pieces into action and shelled the Saturnus, setting her on fire.
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I think this house, so large and prominent from the river, is perhaps taken for headquarters and specially shelled.
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In the middle of all this I was shelled, and my clerk fled before the storm as he was writing the returns.
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Sure enough, though we shelled them and fired at them with rifles, they paid not the slightest attention.
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