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shave
[sheyv]
verb (used without object)
to remove a growth of beard with a razor.
verb (used with object)
to remove hair from (the face, legs, etc.) by cutting it off close to the skin with a razor.
to cut off (hair, especially the beard) close to the skin with a razor (often followed by off oraway ).
to cut or scrape away the surface of with a sharp-edged tool.
to shave hides in preparing leather.
to reduce to shavings or thin slices.
to shave wood.
to cut or trim closely.
to shave a lawn.
to scrape, graze, or come very near to.
The car just shaved the garage door.
Commerce., to purchase (a note) at a rate of discount greater than is legal or customary.
to reduce or deduct from.
The store shaved the price of winter suits in the spring.
noun
the act, process, or an instance of shaving or being shaved.
a thin slice; a shaving.
any of various tools for shaving, scraping, removing thin slices, etc.
shave
/ ʃeɪv /
verb
(also intr) to remove (the beard, hair, etc) from (the face, head, or body) by scraping the skin with a razor
to cut or trim very closely
to reduce to shavings
to remove thin slices from (wood, etc) with a sharp cutting tool; plane or pare
to touch or graze in passing
informal, to reduce (a price) by a slight amount
commerce to purchase (a commercial paper) at a greater rate of discount than is customary or legal
noun
the act or an instance of shaving
any tool for scraping
a thin slice or shaving
an instance of barely touching something
informal, a narrow escape
Other Word Forms
- shavable adjective
- shaveable adjective
- reshave verb
- unshavable adjective
- unshaveable adjective
- unshaved adjective
- well-shaved adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of shave1
Word History and Origins
Origin of shave1
Idioms and Phrases
Example Sentences
By 9 a.m., he’d shaved and shaped up more than 100 heads of hair, he said.
There are tools available to help shave off some of the cost of an online shopping haul in real time.
Coming from Chechnya, a conservative Muslim republic in Russia, she cut her hair short, stopped covering her head, shaved off part of her eyebrow and posted quirky selfies on Instagram.
Storage locations, which include peak shaving facilities, underground gas storage sites, and petroleum product terminals, have over 6 million nearby residents.
He’s floated the idea of a 50-year mortgage to shave monthly payments, but critics have doubts about that idea.
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