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deshelve

deshelve verb: to remove from a shelf.

Verb

deshelve (third-person singular simple present deshelves, present participle deshelving, simple past and past participle deshelved)

  1. (transitive) To remove from a shelf.
    • The pollen I stirred while cutting the grass and the dust I dislodged while deshelving the books had kicked my allergies into overdrive, and I felt dizzy and disconnected as I drove down the long, mostly empty stretch of pine-tree-lined highway toward Pottersville.2016, Michael Lister, Rivers to Blood: a John Jordan Mystery
  2. (broadly, transitive) To make unavailable or inactive.
    • Basically, "You give us a non-aggression pact, America, and we will look at deshelving our nuclear weapons.2003, Meet the Press, page 181

deshelve meaning in Bengali

deshelve in Bengali

তাক থেকে সরিয়ে নেওয়া, অপ্রাপ্য, নিষ্ক্রিয় করা

Forms of deshelve

third-person singular presentdeshelves
present participledeshelving
past participledeshelved
pastdeshelved

Origin of deshelve

From de- + shelve.

Words that rhyme with deshelve

Questions about deshelve

What does deshelve mean?
Deshelve means to remove from a shelf.
What is deshelve in Bengali?
Deshelve in Bengali is তাক থেকে সরিয়ে নেওয়া, অপ্রাপ্য, নিষ্ক্রিয় করা. See Deshelve meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is deshelve?
Deshelve is a verb.
What is the past tense of deshelve?
The past tense of deshelve is deshelved.

Words near deshelve in the dictionary

  1. deshedding
  2. deshell
  3. deshelled
  4. deshelling
  5. deshells
  6. deshelve
  7. deshelved
  8. deshelves
  9. deshelving
  10. deshi
  11. deshielded

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deshelve (page history and authors); deshelve (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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