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Shave   /ʃeɪv/   Listen
Shave

verb
(past shaved; past part. shaven)
1.
Remove body hair with a razor.
2.
Cut closely.  Synonym: trim.
3.
Cut the price of.  Synonym: knock off.
4.
Cut or remove with or as if with a plane.  Synonym: plane.
5.
Make shavings of or reduce to shavings.
6.
Touch the surface of lightly.
noun
1.
The act of removing hair with a razor.  Synonym: shaving.



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"Shave" Quotes from Famous Books



... Wargrave," he said quietly. "But for you that brute would have got me. And his bite is death. Ranga's full of snakes, like all these places in the hills. We've killed several in the Mess since I've been here; but no one's had such a close shave as this. I'll stand you a drink for ...
— The Jungle Girl • Gordon Casserly
... same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the ...
— New Tabernacle Sermons • Thomas De Witt Talmage
... expensive scent (which she abominated), and stacks of new novels, and a fearsome machine of wood and brass and universal joints, by means of which an invalid could read and breakfast and write and shave all at the same time. The only thing he did not give her—the thing she craved more than all—was a fresh-bound copy of ...
— Jaffery • William J. Locke
... it all! Nothing has delighted us so much. Only Randolph Vinerhorn doesn't like it, but he is afraid to say it before the Senator, though I heard him grumbling from across the passage to Lola because he has not got his valet to shave him! Tom, of course, is just as happy as we are. How I love an adventure, Mamma! Did you ever? And if you could see Tom in his flannel shirt and his shabbiest old grey suit, and a felt slouch hat, you could not tell him from one of these lovely miners. ...
— Elizabeth Visits America • Elinor Glyn
... a dandy place for us Boy Scouts to camp," said Bert. "But I guess this must be where they get lumber from, isn't it, Daddy?" he asked, as his father came through the car just then, having been to the wash-room to shave. ...
— The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West • Laura Lee Hope


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