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shelve

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6 lettersPronunciation /ʃɛlv/Part of speech verbSorted eehlsvStarts with SEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. place on a shelf

Word origin

The verb is a back-formation from shelves, the plural of shelf (“flat, rigid structure, fixed at right angles to a wall or forming a part of a cabinet, desk, etc., and used to display, store, or support objects”).

Used in a sentence

  • to shelve a closet or a library
  • The library needs volunteers to help shelve books.
  • Before breakfast I employed myself in airing my old bibliomaniacal hobby, entering all the books lately acquired into a temporary catalogue, so as to have them shelved and marked.

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