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shave

noun

1 shave

The act of removing hair with a razor.

synonym: shaving.

Roget 546: untruth, falsehood, lie, story, thing that is not, fib, bounce, crammer, taradiddle, whopper; jhuth.    forgery, fabrication, invention; ... show more

Polish: golenie siÄ™

verb

1 shave

Remove body hair with a razor.

Roget 195: become small, become smaller; lessen, decrease etc. 36; grow less, dwindle, shrink, contract, narrow, shrivel, collapse, wither, ... show more

Roget 201: be short etc. adj.; render short etc. adj.; shorten, curtail, abridge, abbreviate, take in, reduce; compress etc. ... show more

Roget 204: slice, shave, pare, peel; delaminate; plate, coat, veneer; cover etc. 223.   

Dutch: scheren

2 shave

Cut closely.

synonym: trim.

3 shave

Cut the price of.

synonym: knock off.

4 shave

Cut or remove with or as if with a plane:
— The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood.

synonym: plane.

Roget 255: smooth, smoothen; plane; file; mow, shave; level, roll; macadamize; polish, burnish, calender, glaze; iron, ... show more

5 shave

Make shavings of or reduce to shavings.

6 shave

Touch the surface of lightly.


Moby thesaurus: abate, abbreviate, abrade, abridge, abscind, abstract, amputate, annihilate, ban, bar, bate, beat, beat down, beguile of, bilk, bob, boil down, borrow, break, brush ... show more.

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