shelve

Meanings

Verb

hold back to a later time
place on a shelf
- "shelve books"
To furnish (a place) with shelves; especially, to furnish (a library, etc.) with bookshelves.
To place (something) on a shelf; especially, to place or arrange (books) on a bookshelf.
To place (something) in a certain location, as if on a shelf.
To take (drugs) by anal or vaginal insertion.
To place (something) in a certain location, as if on a shelf.
To have sex with (someone).
To set aside (something), as if on a shelf.
To postpone or put aside, or entirely cease dealing with (a matter for discussion, a project, etc.).
To set aside (something), as if on a shelf.
To remove (someone) from active service.
To hang over or project like a shelf; to overhang.
To tilt or tip (a cart) to discharge its contents.
Of land or a surface: to incline, to slope.
To be in an inclined or sloping position.

Noun

A rocky shelf or ledge of a cliff, a mountain, etc.
Alternative spelling of shelf (“a reef, sandbar, or shoal”).

Origin / Etymology

The verb is a back-formation from shelves, the plural of shelf (“flat, rigid structure, fixed at right angles to a wall or forming a part of a cabinet, desk, etc., and used to display, store, or support objects”).
The noun is derived from sense 2 (“(obsolete) to hang over or project like a shelf”).

Synonyms

Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with", ball, bang, bauf, be with, bed, beep, boff, boink, bone, bonk, boom-boom, coit, coitize, defer, dick, diddle, dig out, dight, do, doink, drill, eff, enjoy, expletive deleted, feague, feck, fill, Formal terms, frack, frak, frick, frig, fuck, get into someone's pants, get over on, get up in, give someone one, give someone the time, go in unto, go to bed with, go with, halt, have, have one's way with, have one's wicked way with, hit, hold over, hump, Informal and slang terms, jape, jump, jump someone's bones, knob, knock, knock off, know, know someone in the biblical sense, lay, lie by, lie with, love, love up, make, mothball, mount, nail, occupy, penetrate, pigeonhole, plough, plug, poke, pork, postpone, pound, prig, prorogue, pump, put off, put over, quit, ream, remit, rock, roger, root, run through, rut, sard, schlong, screw, season, seduce, see to, service, set back, shaft, shag, shelve, slay, sleep with, slip it to, smash, smush, stallionize, stop, swive, table, take, tap, tup, wap

Antonyms

deshelve, unshelve

Scrabble Score: 12

shelve is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
shelve is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
shelve is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

shelve is a valid Words With Friends word