Ruins and Shell

Related words

Definitions of Ruins not found.

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

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

Show all Definitions

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

Nearby Words: shelling, shelled

The former page quote refers to a scene at the end of Battlefield Earth where we are treated to a scene of essentially shell-shocked cavemen staring at the ruins of the (not dome-shaped) dome that had been the base of the bad guys.

Source: The Ruins I Caused
Minecraft has a stunningly powerful Green Aesop as the player discovers grand sweeping vistas and slowly corrupts and ruins them, looking back only to find the landscape perverted by their own desires, a shell of its former self.

Source: Accidental Aesop
In the back-story of Ghost in the Shell, Tokyo was destroyed by a nuclear blast during World War III and a replacement city, New Tokyo, was built near the ruins of the old one.

Source: The Tokyo Fireball

Cite this Source

Shell and Ruins. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/ruins/shell

Ruins & Shell. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/ruins/shell>.

Shell or Ruins. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/ruins/shell.

Google Ngram Viewer shows how "ruins" and "shell" have occurred on timeline