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misshelves

misshelves is the third-person singular simple present indicative of misshelve.

Meaning of misshelve

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

Questions about misshelves

What is misshelves the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Misshelves is the third-person singular simple present indicative of misshelve.

Words near misshelves in the dictionary

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

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