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WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
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Noun, Verb (usu participle)

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun shave has 1 sense

shave(n = noun.act) shaving - the act of removing hair with a razor;

is a kind of depilation, epilation

has particulars: tonsure

Derived form verb shave₁

Verb shave has 6 senses

shave(v = verb.body) - remove body hair with a razor;

is one way to

groom

neaten

Derived forms noun shave₁, noun shaver₃, noun shaver₁, noun shaving₁

Sample sentence:
They shave their hair

shave(v = verb.contact) trim - cut closely; "trim my beard"

is one way to cut

Sample sentence:
They shave their hair

shave(v = verb.possession) knock off - cut the price of;

is one way to bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, reduce, trim, trim back, trim down

Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something

shave(v = verb.contact) plane - cut or remove with or as if with a plane; "The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood"

is one way to cut

Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

shave(v = verb.contact) - make shavings of or reduce to shavings; "shave the radish"

is one way to

carve

cut up

Derived form noun shaving₂

Sample sentence:
The chefs shave the vegetables

shave(v = verb.contact) - touch the surface of lightly; "His back shaved the counter in passing"

Derived form noun shaving₃

Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something

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CIDE DICTIONARY

shave, obs. p. p.

obs. p. p. of Shave. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

"His beard was shave as nigh as ever he can." [1913 Webster]

shave, v. t. [OE. shaven, schaven, AS. scafan, sceafan; akin to D. schaven, G. schaben, Icel. skafa, Sw. skafva, Dan. skave, Goth. scaban, Russ. kopate to dig, Gr. ska`ptein, and probably to L. scabere to scratch, to scrape. Cf. Scab, Shaft, Shape.].

To cut or pare off from the surface of a body with a razor or other edged instrument; to cut off closely, as with a razor; as, to shave the beard. [1913 Webster]
To make bare or smooth by cutting off closely the surface, or surface covering, of; especially, to remove the hair from with a razor or other sharp instrument; to take off the beard or hair of; as, to shave the face or the crown of the head; he shaved himself. [1913 Webster]
"I'll shave your crown for this." [1913 Webster]

"The laborer with the bending scythe is seen
Shaving the surface of the waving green." [1913 Webster]
To cut off thin slices from; to cut in thin slices. [1913 Webster]
"Plants bruised or shaven in leaf or root." [1913 Webster]
To skim along or near the surface of; to pass close to, or touch lightly, in passing. [1913 Webster]
"Now shaves with level wing the deep." [1913 Webster]
To strip; to plunder; to fleece. [1913 Webster]

To shave a note, to buy it at a discount greater than the legal rate of interest, or to deduct in discounting it more than the legal rate allows. [Cant, U.S.]

shave, v. i.

To use a razor for removing the beard; to cut closely; hence, to be hard and severe in a bargain; to practice extortion; to cheat. [1913 Webster]

shave, n. [AS. scafa, sceafa, a sort of knife. See Shave, v. t.].

A thin slice; a shaving. Wright. [1913 Webster]
A cutting of the beard; the operation of shaving. [1913 Webster]
An exorbitant discount on a note. N. Biddle. [1913 Webster]
A hand tool consisting of a sharp blade with a handle at each end; a drawing knife; a spokeshave. [1913 Webster]
The act of passing very near to, so as almost to graze; as, the bullet missed by a close shave. [1913 Webster]

Shave grass (Bot.), the scouring rush. See the Note under Equisetum. -- Shave hook, a tool for scraping metals, consisting of a sharp-edged triangular steel plate attached to a shank and handle.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

shave, v. & n.
--v.tr. (past part. shaved or (as adj.) shaven)
1 remove (bristles or hair) from the face etc. with a razor.
2 (also absol.) remove bristles or hair with a razor from the face etc. of (a person) or (a part of the body).
3 a reduce by a small amount. b take (a small amount) away from.
4 cut thin slices from the surface of (wood etc.) to shape it.
5 pass close to without touching; miss narrowly.
--n.
1 an act of shaving or the process of being shaved.
2 a close approach without contact.
3 a narrow miss or escape; = close shave (see CLOSE(1)).
4 a tool for shaving wood etc.

Etymology

OE sc(e)afan (sense 4 of noun f. OE sceafa) f. Gmc

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THESAURUS

shave

abate, abbreviate, abrade, abridge, abscind, abstract, amputate, annihilate, ban, bar, bate, beat, beat down, beguile of, bilk, bob, boil down, borrow, break, brush, brush by, bunco, burn, capsulize, caress, cheapen, cheat, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, clip, close shave, cog, cog the dice, come in contact, compress, con, condense, contact, contract, cozen, crib, crop, cull, curtail, cut, cut away, cut back, cut down, cut off, cut off short, cut out, cut prices, cut short, dab, decline, decrease, deduct, deflate, defraud, depreciate, derogate, detract, devaluate, diddle, diminish, discount, discount notes, disparage, dive, do in, do out of, dock, drag, drain, dress, dub, eat away, elide, eliminate, enucleate, epitomize, equalize, eradicate, erode, euchre, even, except, excise, exclude, extinguish, extirpate, extract, fall, fall in price, file away, finagle, flam, flatten, fleece, flimflam, fob, foreshorten, fudge, give way, glance, gouge, grade, graze, grease, gull, gyp, harrow, have, hit, hocus, hocus-pocus, impair, impinge, isolate, jew down, kiss, knock off, lay, leach, lend, lessen, level, lop, lower, lubricate, mark down, mow, mulct, mutilate, narrow escape, narrow squeak, nip, nose-dive, nudge, oil, osculate, pack the deal, pare, peel, pick out, pigeon, plane, planish, plaster, plummet, plunge, poll, pollard, practice fraud upon, prune, purify, reap, recap, recapitulate, reduce, refine, remove, retrench, rook, root out, rub, rub away, rule out, sag, scam, scrape, screw, sell gold bricks, set apart, set aside, shear, shingle, shortchange, shorten, shred, sideswipe, skim, skirt, skive, slash, slump, smooth, smooth down, smooth out, snub, squeak by, stack the cards, stamp out, stick, sting, strike off, strip, strip off, stunt, subduct, subtract, sum up, summarize, swindle, synopsize, take a dive, take away, take from, take in, take off, take out, telescope, thimblerig, thin, thin out, throw a fight, touch, trim, truncate, victimize, wear away, weed, whittle, wipe out, withdraw

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shave

Contraction

VB become small, become smaller, lessen, decrease, grow less, dwindle, shrink, contract, narrow, shrivel, collapse, wither, lose flesh, wizen, fall away, waste, wane, ebb, decay, be smaller than, fall short of, not come up to, render smaller, lessen, diminish, contract, draw in, narrow, coarctate, boil down, constrict, constringe, condense, compress, squeeze, corrugate, crimp, crunch, crush, crumple up, warp, purse up, pack, squeeze, stow, pinch, tighten, strangle, cramp, dwarf, bedwarf, shorten, circumscribe, restrain, (subtraction) 38 abrade, pare, reduce, attenuate, rub down, scrape, file, file down, grind, grind down, chip, shave, shear, wear down.

Shortness

VB be short, render short, shorten, curtail, abridge, abbreviate, take in, reduce, compress, epitomize, retrench, cut short, obtruncate, scrimp, cut, chop up, hack, hew, cut down, pare down, clip, dock, lop, prune, shear, shave, mow, reap, crop, snub, truncate, pollard, stunt, nip, check the growth of, foreshorten (in drawing).

Layer

VB slice, shave, pare, peel, delaminate, plate, coat, veneer, cover.

Smoothness

VB smooth, smoothen, plane, file, mow, shave, level, roll, macadamize, polish, burnish, calender, glaze, iron, hot-press, mangle, lubricate.

Untruth

N untruth, falsehood, lie, story, thing that is not, fib, bounce, crammer, taradiddle, whopper, jhuth, forgery, fabrication, invention, misstatement, misrepresentation, perversion, falsification, gloss, suggestio falsi, exaggeration, invention, fabrication, fiction, fable, nursery tale, romance, absurd story, untrue story, false story, trumped up story, trumped up statement, thing devised by the enemy, canard, shave, sell, hum, traveler's tale, Canterbury tale, cock and bull story, fairy tale, fake, claptrap, press agent's yarn, puff, puffery (exaggeration), myth, moonshine, bosh, all my eye and Betty Martin, mare's nest, farce, irony, half truth, white lie, pious fraud, mental reservation, pretense, pretext, false plea, subterfuge, evasion, shift, shuffle, make-believe, sham, profession, empty words, Judas kiss, disguise, untrue, false, phony, trumped up, void of foundation, without- foundation, fictive, far from the truth, false as dicer's oaths, unfounded, ben trovato, invented, fabulous, fabricated, forged, fictitious, factitious, supposititious, surreptitious, elusory, illusory, ironical, soi-disant, se non e vero e ben trovato, where none is meant that meets the ear.

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