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Shelve   Listen
verb
Shelve  v. i.  (past & past part. shelved; pres. part. shelving)  To incline gradually; to be slopping; as, the bottom shelves from the shore.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Shelve" Quotes from Famous Books



... there is no backbone or support in a religion that teaches irresponsibility. That is the great fault of you Christians. Your faith is not a thing you take hold of, and grasp and act upon. Hence your many national disasters. You shelve your future, or what you call your salvation, on the merits of a Sacrifice, and think yourselves relieved of all further trouble. In the world, and in society, religion is a tabooed subject—it is only kept for Sundays and for churches. I believe your ...
— The Mystery of a Turkish Bath • E.M. Gollan (AKA Rita)


Words linked to "Shelve" :   defer, scrub, pose, respite, postpone, put over, delay, put off, lay, set back, hold, reprieve, place, scratch, shelver, suspend, set, table, prorogue, hold over


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