Crossword-Solution: SHELVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Shelve | v. t. | To furnish with shelves; as, to shelve a closet or a library. |
| Shelve | v. t. | To place on a shelf. Hence: To lay on the shelf; to put aside; to dismiss from service; to put off indefinitely; as, to shelve an officer; to shelve a claim. |
| Shelve | v. i. | To incline gradually; to be slopping; as, the bottom shelves from the shore. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SHELVE (5)
The onset of the Gulf crisis in August 1990 forced the government to shelve the IMF program and suspend most debt payments and rescheduling negotiations.
The Persian Gulf crisis that began in August 1990, however, aggravated Jordan's already serious economic problems, forcing the government to shelve the IMF program, stop most debt payments, and suspend rescheduling negotiations.
The water did not shelve, it went down sheer fifty fathoms or more, and one could fish from the bank just as from a pier head.
But from such broad waters as those of Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, and Lake Michigan, the shores shelve very gradually, and have none of the materials of lovely scenery.
The depth within the banks northward of latitude 17°, is usually greater, and their outer sides shelve more abruptly (circumstances which seem to go together) than in the Dhalac and Farsan Archipelagoes; but this might easily have been caused by a difference in the action of the currents during their formation: moreover, the greater quantity of living coral, which, according to Captain Moresby, exists on the northern banks, would tend to give them steeper margins.
Quotes with SHELVE (3)
Tomorrow you'll receive your employment contracts. Once you sign those I'm your boss." When I didn't answer he said, "That means you act the way I want you to act. That means you shelve your attitude and the twenty questions.""Should I shelve those next to 'personality'?
But then his parents changed. A year of California had changed them. They stopped sending money. Greg was forced to go out into the world, to interact with real people. And he was glad of this. He had always wanted to be a normal person. To be at ease in society. He had just been too scared to try. But now he was forced to, and so he did — he went and got a job at the public library. He was not quite a librarian, but close. Greg was a shelver. There would be carts of books to…
I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 53 times in crossword archives (1962–2024).