Synonyms for shelve
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : shelv |
| Phonetic Transcription : ʃɛlv |
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Définition of shelve
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
- It had previously been decided to shelve "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
- Extract from : « A Pirate of Parts » by Richard Neville
- The idea was not altogether comfortable, and he tried to shelve it.
- Extract from : « The Master of the Shell » by Talbot Baines Reed
- We'll shelve that part of the information bureau and work on other lines.
- Extract from : « A Patriotic Schoolgirl » by Angela Brazil
- She is head on to the Sand, but the Sand does not shelve much, and her keel is pretty even.
- Extract from : « Storm Warriors » by John Gilmore
- Believe me, they aren't going to shelve me just because one finger's gone!
- Extract from : « Over the Seas for Uncle Sam » by Elaine Sterne
- Ah, well; then we'll shelve that subject too for the present.
- Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, July 16, 1887 » by Various
- These are the momentous, the pressing questions which a man can only shelve at his peril.
- Extract from : « Sermons » by J. B. Lightfoot
- But here he could see that the top of the bluff really did shelve over.
- Extract from : « The Magnetic North » by Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)
- You and Curtis see all the decent-looking women and shelve all the rest on me.
- Extract from : « The Sorcery Club » by Elliott O'Donnell
- Mrs. Taine, Louise, and Jim tried to shelve me--but I fooled 'em.
- Extract from : « The Eyes of the World » by Harold Bell Wright
Antonyms for shelve
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