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misshelve

misshelve verb: to place on the wrong shelf; to misclassify.

Verb

misshelve (third-person singular simple present misshelves, present participle misshelving, simple past and past participle misshelved)

  1. (transitive) To place on the wrong shelf; to misclassify.
    • She scoured the library for misshelved volumes, reread five surrounding volumes, reviewed her early notes but never found that paragraph imprinted in her memory, “the words filling less than half a page, the address on Clark Street, the remarks about her appearance, all of which where typed up by a...2007 February 11, Elizabeth Schmidt, “Erasing Slavery”, in New York Times

misshelve meaning in Bengali

misshelve in Bengali

ভুল তাকে রাখা, ভুলভাবে শ্রেণিবদ্ধ করা

Forms of misshelve

third-person singular presentmisshelves
present participlemisshelving
past participlemisshelved
pastmisshelved

Origin of misshelve

From mis- + shelve.

Words that rhyme with misshelve

Questions about misshelve

What does misshelve mean?
Misshelve means to place on the wrong shelf; to misclassify.
What is misshelve in Bengali?
Misshelve in Bengali is ভুল তাকে রাখা, ভুলভাবে শ্রেণিবদ্ধ করা. See Misshelve meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is misshelve?
Misshelve is a verb.
What is the past tense of misshelve?
The past tense of misshelve is misshelved.

Words near misshelve in the dictionary

  1. missharing
  2. missharpen
  3. missharpened
  4. missharpening
  5. missharpens
  6. misshelve
  7. misshelved
  8. misshelves
  9. misshelving
  10. misshelvings
  11. misshift

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misshelve (page history and authors); misshelve (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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