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misshelve en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + shelve.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To place on the wrong shelf; to misclassify.
   • She scoured the library for misshelved volumes, reread five surrounding volumes, reviewed her early notes but never found that paragraph imprinted in her memory, “the words filling less than half a page, the address on Clark Street, the remarks about her appearance, all of which where typed up by a machine in need of new ribbon.” 2007 February 11, Elizabeth Schmidt, “Erasing Slavery”, in New York Times:

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