Outer and Shell

Outer

Outer adjective - Situated on the outside or farther out.

Shell and outer are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Shell" instead a noun "Outer".

Shell

Shell noun - Something that encloses another thing especially to protect it.
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Synonyms for Shell

Outer and shell are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Outer" instead a noun "Shell".

Nearby Words: shelling, shelled

Both words in one sentence

  • Video Game / Clock Tower Body of Bodies: According to outer sources, Dan's giant baby form is actually a shell made from his murdered victims.
  • Franchise / Transformers Generation 1 Pretenders were simple but well-articulated Transformers who came with an outer humanoid or monstrous plastic shell for disguise.
  • Webcomic / No Rest for the Wicked Her outer skin is just a shell keeping the corpses of all the children she's eaten "safe," they even pulled her back together when she got cut to pieces.
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