shelve

Meaning of shelve

noun

A rocky ledge or shelf.

verb
  1. To place on a shelf.
    The library needs volunteers to help shelve books.
  2. To set aside; to quit or postpone.
    They shelved the entire project when they heard how much it would cost.
  3. To furnish with shelves.
    to shelve a closet or a library
  4. To take (drugs) by anal or vaginal insertion.
  5. To have sex with.
  6. To slope; to incline; to form into shelves.

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Hyphenation of shelve

shelve

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • shelve is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

shelve synonyms

Meaning postpone:

postpone, prorogue, table, defer, remit

Meaning :

pigeonhole

Anagrams of shelve

helves, shevel

Words that rhyme with shelve

elve, belve, bedelve, delve, undelve, updelve, Helve, helve, reshelve, unshelve, whelve, Twelve, twelve

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