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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
/ 蕛别瑟惫 /
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
- 藞蝉丑补惫补产濒别, adjective
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 蝉丑补惫顎僡路产濒别 蝉丑补惫别顎僡路产濒别 adjective
- 谤别路蝉丑补惫别顎 verb reshaved reshaving
- un路蝉丑补惫顎僡路产濒别 adjective
- un路蝉丑补惫别顎僡路产濒别 adjective
- 耻苍路蝉丑补惫别诲顎 adjective
- 飞别濒濒顎-蝉丑补惫别诲顎 adjective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of shave1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of shave1
Idioms and Phrases
see close call (shave) .Example Sentences
We had to shave a lot of it down.
She had spotted her son in the image, taken from above, of a sea of shaven heads belonging to men in white T-shirts sat in long, straight rows.
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鈥檚 roll is packed with finely shaved Black Angus beef, fried onions and melted American cheese 鈥 though mushrooms and halal chicken are also available as fillings.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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