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shell verb verb BrE BrE//?el// ; NAmE NAmE//?el//
present simple I / you / we / they shell BrE BrE//?el// ; NAmE NAmE//?el//
he / she / it shells BrE BrE//?elz// ; NAmE NAmE//?elz//
past simple shelled BrE BrE//?eld// ; NAmE NAmE//?eld//
past participle shelled BrE BrE//?eld// ; NAmE NAmE//?eld//
-ing form shelling BrE BrE//'?el??// ; NAmE NAmE//'?el??//
1[transitive, intransitive] shell (something) to fire shells at something They shelled the city all night. Just as they were leaving, the rebels started shelling. See related entries: 2[transitive] shell something to remove the shell or covering from nuts, peas, etc. Old English scell (noun), of G related to Dutch
‘scale, shell’, also to
‘thin plates that cover the skin of many fish and reptiles’. The verb dates from the mid 16th cent. in sense (2). Check pronunciation:
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