Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to shelve
Participle: shelved
Gerund: shelving
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | shelve |
| you | shelve |
| he;she;it | shelves |
| we | shelve |
| you | shelve |
| they | shelve |
Perfect
| I | have shelved |
| you | have shelved |
| he;she;it | has shelved |
| we | have shelved |
| you | have shelved |
| they | have shelved |
Past
| I | shelved |
| you | shelved |
| he;she;it | shelved |
| we | shelved |
| you | shelved |
| they | shelved |
Pluperfect
| I | had shelved |
| you | had shelved |
| he;she;it | had shelved |
| we | had shelved |
| you | had shelved |
| they | had shelved |
Future
| I | will shelve |
| you | will shelve |
| he;she;it | will shelve |
| we | will shelve |
| you | will shelve |
| they | will shelve |
Future Perfect
| I | will have shelved |
| you | will have shelved |
| he;she;it | will have shelved |
| we | will have shelved |
| you | will have shelved |
| they | will have shelved |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | shelve |
| you | shelve |
| he;she;it | shelve |
| we | shelve |
| you | shelve |
| they | shelve |
Perfect
| I | have shelved |
| you | have shelved |
| he;she;it | have shelved |
| we | have shelved |
| you | have shelved |
| they | have shelved |
Imperfect
| I | shelved |
| you | shelved |
| he;she;it | shelved |
| we | shelved |
| you | shelved |
| they | shelved |
Pluperfect
| I | had shelved |
| you | had shelved |
| he;she;it | had shelved |
| we | had shelved |
| you | had shelved |
| they | had shelved |
Conditional
Present
| I | would shelve |
| you | would shelve |
| he;she;it | would shelve |
| we | would shelve |
| you | would shelve |
| they | would shelve |
Perfect
| I | would have shelved |
| you | would have shelved |
| he;she;it | would have shelved |
| we | would have shelved |
| you | would have shelved |
| they | would have shelved |
Imperative
| you | shelve |
| we | Let's shelve |
| you | shelve |
Verbs conjugated like 'shelve'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'shelve'
helve,
sheave,
cheve,
delve,
deshelve,
halve,
heave,
hele,
helpe,
reshelve,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- have sex with
- diddle, hit, plough, plug, rock, slay, copulate with
- to engage in sexual intercourse
- bang, bauf, beat, boff, boink, bone, bonk, bop, bounce, breed, bump nasties, bump uglies, catch a dick, cohabit, company, copulate, couple, dance, discuss Uganda, do it, do the deed, do the nasty, eff, engender, exchange flesh, expletive deleted, feck, frack, frak, frig, fuck, get busy, get freaky, get it, get it on, get jiggy, get laid, get one's end away, get one's freak on, get one's groove on, get one's leg over, get one's oats, get physical, get some, go all the way, graft the forked tree, haul one's ashes, have it off, have marital relations, have sex, have sexual relations, hump, intercourse, jig-jig, make it, make love, make the beast with two backs, make whoopee, mate, meddle, ming, play, ride, rock and roll, roger, roll around, root, see someone's etchings, sex, shag, share a bed, show someone one's etchings, slap bellies, sleep together, stick, tumble, wango tango
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 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”).
2. The noun is derived from etymology 1, verb sense 2 (“(obsolete) to hang over or project like a shelf”).
Sample Sentences
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to shelve a closet or a library
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The library needs volunteers to help shelve books.
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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. [1827 July 1 (date written), Walter Scott, “[Entry dated 1 July 1827]”, in David Douglas, editor, The Journal of Sir Walter Scott […], volume II, Edinburgh: David Douglas, published 1890, →OCLC, page 1:]
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I love shelving ecstasy! [2002 June 4, Anthony Hodges, “Drugs Seized by Customs”, in alt.anagrams (Usenet):]
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I had a funny conversation with my dad last night about shelving. It's when you shelve a pill up your bum. It was a lovely dinner conversation. […] My parents were like, in our generation we didn't snort pills, we used to drop them because it's so bad to snort. I was like, Yeah, what about shelving? They were like What? I was, Oh no, I thought you'd know. [2011 June 19, Frances Morton, quoting Emma, “School daze”, in Shayne Currie, editor, The Herald on Sunday, Auckland: New Zealand Media and Entertainment, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Apr 2022:]
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Some people use Ecstasy using a method known as "shafting" or "shelving" which involves inserting a pill or tablet into the anus. [2013 February 22, Edward J. Benavidez, “Effects of Ecstasy”, in Getting High: The Effects of Drugs, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 65:]
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Amphetamines and ATS can be smoked, snorted, injected, or taken orallym, including rubbing on gums. Occasionally, they are taken anally (‘shelving’). [2016, “Pharmacology and Pathophysiology”, in John B. Saunders [et al.], editors, Addiction Medicine (Oxford Specialist Handbooks), 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 44:]
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They shelved the entire project when they heard how much it would cost.
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[T]he Circumlocution Office, being reminded that my lords had arrived at no decision, shelved the business. [1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, “Containing the Whole Science of Government”, in Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC, 1st book (Poverty), page 87:]
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Among the schemes that have been shelved is one for the electrification of the railway between Bergen and Oslo. [Electrification was completed in 1964.] [1950 April, “The Mountain Section of the Bergen-Oslo Railway”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 223:]
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The arrival of the new Birmingham units on the West Highland line suggests that a scheme to use 16 of the next batch of English Electric Type 4s previously allotted to the Scottish Region, Nos. D357–D384, on the West Highland and Callander-Oban lines has been shelved. [1961 October, “Motive Power Miscellany: Scottish Region”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 636:]
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When we shelve our pain, it doesn't go away. Rather, it festers in a myriad of ways. We need to undersand that strength and grief fit together. We must be strong to handle grief, and in the end, grief brings out strengths we never knew we had. [2005, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, David Kessler, “The Inner World of Grief”, in On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief through the Five Stages of Loss, New York, N.Y.: Scribner, published August 2014, →ISBN, page 102:]
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The time, too, nearly ripe for his great schemes, made it doubly necessary that he should exert himself, and prevent being shelved with a plausible excuse of tender compassion for his infirmities. [1838, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter I, in Alice or The Mysteries […], volume III, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC, book IX, page 90:]
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Her chamber is aloft, far from the ground, / And built ſo ſheluing, that one cannot climbe it / VVithout apparent hazard of his life. [c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 29, column 2:]
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The beach shelved quickly and he kept underwater as long as he could, swimming with powerful strokes and feeling the soft coolness all over him. [1953, Ian Fleming, “Tide of Passion”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 165:]