Shelled

//ʃɛld//

Synonyms for "shelled" (31 found)

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Closest matches (7)

armored clouded covert deshelled enveloped floored

Adjective(1 words)

deshelled

Strong matches (9)

hard shelled hooded housed loricate mantled masked muffled obscured

Adjective(1 words)

loricate

Related words (15)

packaged paved roofed screened sheathed shielded shrouded smooth shelled spiral shelled tented thin shelled undercover veiled walled wrapped

Related word relations

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7 relation types

Antonyms

2 entries

unshelled

Synonyms

1 entries

deshelled

derived

4 entries

Santa Barbara shelled slug nonshelled pitted-shelled turtle soft-shelled turtle

form of

1 entries

shell

has context

2 entries

cycling slang

related to

4 entries

energy race shell testaceous

similar

8 entries

hard shelled hard-shelled smooth shelled smooth-shelled spiral shelled spiral-shelled thin shelled thin-shelled

Translations

1 translations across 1 languages.

French

1 entries

décortiqué adj (having had the shell removed)

Sample sentences

12 total sentences available.

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My sister shelled the beans.

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The Union army shelled the city.

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Tom shelled the shrimp.

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The by-products of living things also play an important part in creating sandy beaches. Bermuda's preponderance of pleasantly pink beaches results from the perpetual decay of single-celled, shelled organisms called foraminifera.

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