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Noun shelling has 1 sense
- barrage, barrage fire, battery, bombardment, shelling - the heavy fire of artillery to saturate an area rather than hit a specific target; "they laid down a barrage in front of the advancing troops"; "the shelling went on for hours without pausing"
--1 is a kind of fire, firing
Verb shell has 7 senses
- blast, shell - use explosives on; "The enemy has been shelling us all day"
--1 is one way to bombard, bomb
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- shell - fall out of the pod or husk; "The corn shelled"
--2 is one way to emerge
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- shell - hit the pitches of hard and regularly; "He shelled the pitcher for eight runs in the first inning"
--3 is one way to hit
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- shell - look for and collect shells by the seashore
--4 is one way to gather
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- beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish - come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"
--5 is one way to get the better of, overcome, defeat
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- shell - remove from its shell or outer covering; "shell the legumes"; "shell mussels"
--6 is one way to remove, take, take away, withdraw
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- husk, shell - remove the husks from; "husk corn"
--7 is one way to remove, take, take away, withdraw
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