deshelve
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛlv
Verb
deshelve (third-person singular simple present deshelves, present participle deshelving, simple past and past participle deshelved)
- (transitive) To remove from a shelf.
- 2016, Michael Lister, Rivers to Blood: a John Jordan Mystery:
- The pollen I stirred while cutting the grass and the dust I dislodged while deshelving the books had kicked my allergies into overdrive, and I felt dizzy and disconnected as I drove down the long, mostly empty stretch of pine-tree-lined highway toward Pottersville.
- (transitive, by extension) To make unavailable or inactive.
- 2003, Meet the Press, page 181:
- Basically, "You give us a non-aggression pact, America, and we will look at deshelving our nuclear weapons.
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