Dictionary Entry
shelve
shelve is a 6-letter English word with 5 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To furnish with shelves; as, to shelve a closet or a library. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 13 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To furnish with shelves; as, to shelve a closet or a library.
- 2transitive verb
To place on a shelf. Hence: To lay on the shelf; to put aside; to dismiss from service; to put off indefinitely; as, to shelve an officer; to shelve a claim.
- 3intransitive verb
To incline gradually; to be slopping; as, the bottom shelves from the shore.
- 4verb
place on a shelf
"shelve books"
- 5verb
hold back to a later time
"let's postpone the exam"
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