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shelled

shelled
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [sheld]
    • /ʃɛld/
    • /ʃel/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [sheld]
    • /ʃɛld/

Definitions of shelled word

  • adjective shelled having the shell removed: shelled pecans. 1
  • adjective shelled (especially of field corn, grain, etc.) removed from the ear or husk. 1
  • adjective shelled having or enclosed in a shell. 1
  • noun shelled a hard outer covering of an animal, as the hard case of a mollusk, or either half of the case of a bivalve mollusk. 1
  • noun shelled any of various objects resembling such a covering, as in shape or in being more or less concave or hollow. 1
  • noun shelled the material constituting any of various coverings of this kind. 1

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Origin of shelled

First appearance:

before 1570
One of the 33% oldest English words
First recorded in 1570-80; shell + -ed2

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Shelled

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

shelled popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 84% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.

shelled usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for shelled

noun shelled

  • barked — the external covering of the woody stems, branches, and roots of plants, as distinct and separable from the wood itself.
  • cannonballed — Simple past tense and past participle of cannonball.
  • capsuled — Enclosed within a capsule.
  • chaffed — good-natured ridicule or teasing; raillery.
  • cocooned — If someone is cocooned in blankets or clothes, they are completely wrapped in them.

verb shelled

  • warred — a conflict carried on by force of arms, as between nations or between parties within a nation; warfare, as by land, sea, or air.

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