shelve🔊

(transitive)

To furnish (a place) with shelves; especially, to furnish (a library, etc.) with bookshelves.

To place (something) on a shelf; especially, to place or arrange (books) on a bookshelf.

(figurative) To place (something) in a certain location, as if on a shelf.

# (slang) To take (drugs) by anal or vaginal insertion.

# (slang) To have sex with (someone).

(figurative) To set aside (something), as if on a shelf.

# To postpone or put aside, or entirely cease dealing with (a matter for discussion, a project, etc.).

# (reflexive) To remove (someone) from active service.

(project)(obsolete) To hang over or project like a shelf; to overhang.

(archaic) A rocky shelf or ledge of a cliff, a mountain, etc.

(dialectal) To tilt or tip (a cart) to discharge its contents.

(intransitive)

Of land or a surface: to incline, to slope.

(obsolete) To be in an inclined or sloping position.

(archaic) (t=a reef, sandbar, or shoal).