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   shave

   /ʃeɪv/

   verb

   • 1. (of a man) cut the hair off the face with a razor: "he washed, shaved, and had breakfast" Similar cut offsnip offcroptrimbarbertonsure
   • ▪ cut the hair off (a part of the body) with a razor: "she shaved her legs"
   • ▪ cut the hair off the face or another part of the body of (someone) with a razor: "the barber shaves customers with a traditional cut-throat razor"
   • ▪ cut (hair) off with a razor: "professional male swimmers shave off their body hair"
   • 2. cut (a thin slice or slices) from the surface of something: "scrape a large sharp knife across the surface, shaving off rolls of very fine chocolate" Similar plane offpare offshear offwhittle offscrape offgrateshred
   • ▪ take (a small amount) from something: "she shaved 0.5 seconds off the British junior record" Similar take offremove fromlop offcut off
   • ▪ reduce by a small amount: "they shaved profit margins" Similar reducecutbring downlessendecreasemake smallerprunepare downshrinkslim downwhittle down
   • 3. pass or send something close to (something else), missing it narrowly: "Scott shaved the post in the 29th minute" Similar touch lightlybrushbrush againstgrazeglance offkiss

   noun

   • 1. an act of shaving hair from the face or a part of the body: "you need a shave"

   Word Origin Old Englishsc(e)afan ‘scrape away the surface of (something) by paring’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schaven and German schaben.

   Scrabble Points: 11

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