shelled Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb use explosives on
    shell; blast.
    • The enemy has been shelling us all day
  2. verb create by using explosives
    shell; blast.
    • blast a passage through the mountain
  3. verb fall out of the pod or husk
    shell.
    • The corn shelled
  4. verb hit the pitches of hard and regularly
    shell.
    • He shelled the pitcher for eight runs in the first inning
  5. verb look for and collect shells by the seashore
    shell.
  6. verb come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
    shell; beat; trounce; crush; beat out; vanquish.
    • Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship
    • We beat the competition
    • Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game
  7. verb remove from its shell or outer covering
    shell.
    • shell the legumes
    • shell mussels
  8. verb remove the husks from
    shell; husk.
    • husk corn
  9. adjective of animals or fruits that have a shell

WordNet


Shelled adjective
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) Having a shell.

Webster 1913