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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 or away ).
- 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.
Synonyms: , ,
- 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
/ ʃɪ /
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
- close shave informal.a narrow escape
Derived Forms
- ˈ, adjective
Other Word Forms
- a· a· adjective
- · verb reshaved reshaving
- un·a· adjective
- un·a· adjective
- ܲ· adjective
- ɱ- adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of shave1
Word History and Origins
Origin of shave1
Idioms and Phrases
see close call (shave) .Example Sentences
On Saturday, Bass told The Times that her budget team had shaved the number to fewer than 2,000.
And then there are the images of the migrants deported to a notorious El Salvador prison, shackled one behind the other in prison garb, their heads bowed and shaven.
The squishy Amoroso’s roll is packed with finely shaved Black Angus beef, fried onions and melted American cheese — though mushrooms and halal chicken are also available as fillings.
His thick black hair, a personal point of pride and frequent topic of jokes, began falling out in asymmetrical patches on the sides and in back and is now fully shaved.
I would chase dim sum with a roasted Sicilian pistachio gelato at Pazzo Gelato in Silver Lake or shaved ice at Joy in Highland Park.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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