Antonyms for shelved

Grammar : Verb

Spell : shelv

Phonetic Transcription : ʃɛlv

Definition of shelved

Origin : 1590s, "to overhang," also "to provide with shelves," probably a back-formation from shelves, plural of shelf (n.1). Meaning "put on a shelf" first recorded 1650s; metaphoric sense of "lay aside, dismiss" is from 1812. Related: Shelved; shelving.

verb defer, postpone

Example sentences :

At least I had shelved the question of what (if anything) I ought to do.
Extract from : « The Prisoner of Zenda » by Anthony Hope

She shelved the doubt as to whether Patsy was under a misapprehension.
Extract from : « Patsy » by S. R. Crockett

They forgot everything in their anxiety to get him shelved and silenced.
Extract from : « Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc » by Mark Twain

Elsewhere it shelved off into the steep slope down which Bas had carried him.
Extract from : « The Roof Tree » by Charles Neville Buck

"I should say we were shelved," answered the captain, with a faint smile.
Extract from : « An Undivided Union » by Oliver Optic

The request was shelved, however, and still was unanswered in 1748.
Extract from : « The Cultural History of Marlborough, Virginia » by C. Malcolm Watkins

To go to the House of Lords was, as he thought and said, to be “shelved.”
Extract from : « The Life of Florence Nightingale vol. 1 of 2 » by Edward Tyas Cook

Sheridan avowed that Congreve must be played unmutilated or be shelved.
Extract from : « Their Majesties' Servants (Volume 1 of 3) » by John Doran

At home Social and Political questions have been, for the time being, shelved.
Extract from : « The Annual Register 1914 » by Anonymous

After a full discussion of the affair, Enistor insisted that it should be shelved.
Extract from : « A Son of Perdition » by Fergus Hume

Synonyms for shelved

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