Synonyms for shaving
ˈʃeɪ vɪŋshav·ing

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1. shave, shavingnoun

   the act of removing hair with a razor

   Synonyms:
   paring, shave, sliver, grazing, skimming

2. paring, sliver, shavingnoun

   a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something

   Synonyms:
   sliver, shave, paring, grazing, splinter, skimming

3. grazing, shaving, skimmingnoun

   the act of brushing against while passing

   Synonyms:
   paring, graze, skimming, shave, grazing, skim, sliver

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1. List of paraphrases for "shaving":

   shave, ebp

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How to use shaving in a sentence?

1. Tristan Walker:

   Shaving irritation and razor bumps [ are ] issues some 80 % of black men and women have globally, if you have curly hair, this is an issue that you're likely to face.

2. Alex Kroll:

   Getting ideas is like shaving if you don't do it every day, you're a bum.

3. Neil Paine:

   Putting in that pitch clock and the rules around it has been single handedly responsible for shaving off 25 minutes of kind of dead time off a baseball game, i think that’s probably still a positive in the net sense, but at the same time you do lose a little bit of that other stuff.

4. Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas:

   as your attorney I advise you to take a hit out of the small brown bottle in my shaving kit.

5. Chris Todd:

   I've been photographing a ton of elopements. I've probably shot 50 in the last year and a half, i had a couple of huge weddings that ended up being smaller. They're shaving down the guest lists.