shelved

Verb

shelve (third-person singular simple present shelves, present participle shelving, simple past and past participle shelved)

1. (transitive) To furnish (a place) with shelves; especially, to furnish (a library, etc.) with bookshelves.
   • to shelve a closet or a library
2. (transitive) To place (something) on a shelf; especially, to place or arrange (books) on a bookshelf.
   • The library needs volunteers to help shelve books.

   Antonyms:

   deshelve, unshelve

3. (figuratively, slang, transitive) To take (drugs) by anal or vaginal insertion.
   • I love shelving ecstasy!2002 June 4, Anthony Hodges, “Drugs Seized by Customs”, in alt.anagrams (Usenet)
4. (Wales, figuratively, slang, transitive) To have sex with (someone).

   Synonyms:

   Formal terms, bed, coit, coitize, dight, enjoy, feague, go in unto, go to bed with, have

5. (figuratively, transitive) To postpone or put aside, or entirely cease dealing with (a matter for discussion, a project, etc.).
   • They shelved the entire project when they heard how much it would cost.

   Synonyms:

   mothball, pigeonhole, table, halt, quit, stop

6. (also, figuratively, reflexive, transitive) To remove (someone) from active service.
   • 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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