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unshelving

unshelving is the present participle and gerund of unshelve.

Meaning of unshelve

Verb

unshelve (third-person singular simple present unshelves, present participle unshelving, simple past and past participle unshelved)

  1. (transitive) To remove from a shelf.
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To bring back something that was shelved, or put aside.

Questions about unshelving

What is unshelving the present participle and gerund of?
Unshelving is the present participle and gerund of unshelve.

Words near unshelving in the dictionary

  1. unshelteredness
  2. unsheltering
  3. unshelve
  4. unshelved
  5. unshelves
  6. unshelving
  7. unshent
  8. unshepherded
  9. unshepherdlike
  10. unshepherdly
  11. unshewn

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unshelving (page history and authors); unshelve (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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