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According to WordNet, the verb "shell" has 8 sense(s).

201513710 fall out of the pod or husk; "The corn shelled".

200181258 remove the husks from; "husk corn".

200197744 remove from its shell or outer covering; "shell the legumes"; "shell mussels".

201406195 hit the pitches of hard and regularly; "He shelled the pitcher for eight runs in the first inning".

201101913 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".

201135922 use explosives on; "The enemy has been shelling us all day".

201759021 create by using explosives; "blast a passage through the mountain".

201316813 look for and collect shells by the seashore.

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