What is another word for shave?
Synonyms for shave
ʃeɪvshave
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Princeton's WordNet
shave, shavingverb
the act of removing hair with a razor
shaveverb
remove body hair with a razor
shave, trimverb
cut closely
"trim my beard"
Synonyms:
plane, trim down, garnish, bring down, cut back, prune, trim back, crop, reduce, cut down, cut, clip, pare, dress, lop, trim, knock off, snipshave, knock offverb
cut the price of
Synonyms:
plane, waste, thieve, toss off, knock off, neutralise, do in, drop, scratch off, neutralize, glom, fling off, snitch, liquidate, trim, dash off, cop, hookplane, shaveverb
cut or remove with or as if with a plane
"The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood"
shaveverb
make shavings of or reduce to shavings
"shave the radish"
shaveverb
touch the surface of lightly
"His back shaved the counter in passing"
Dictionary of English Synonymes
shaveverb
Synonyms:
cut off (close to the surface)shaveverb
Synonyms:
make smooth or bare (as by cutting off hair closely)shaveverb
Synonyms:
slice, cut in thin slicesshaveverb
shaveverb
Synonyms:
graze, skim, touch lightly (in passing over)
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
shavenoun
Synonyms:
shaving, spokeshave, drawshave
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#1324 | cut | |
#1980 | waste | |
#2036 | reduce | |
#2158 | drop | |
#2549 | clip | |
#2868 | dress | |
#4010 | plane | |
#5613 | hook | |
#5648 | crop | |
#5998 | trim | |
#9382 | cop | |
#12682 | razor | |
#13405 | beard | |
#14352 | shaving | |
#15075 | shave | |
#15380 | grazing | |
#23816 | snip | |
#26237 | skim | |
#31472 | garnish | |
#32728 | prune | |
#39656 | neutralize | |
#40167 | flatten | |
#41636 | lop | |
#42771 | pare | |
#44576 | sliver | |
#47971 | skimming | |
#50867 | paring | |
#56710 | liquidate | |
#61869 | snitch | |
#85589 | raze | |
#123666 | neutralise | |
#176380 | glom | |
#323789 | thieve |
How to use shave in a sentence?
If Lincoln were alive today, imagine the foolishness he would have to suffer. Advisers telling him to shave his beard. Cable pundits telling him to lose the top hat, opposition researchers calling him a five-time loser before the age of 50.
I don’t know why I had that one, i was in the dressing room with an hour to go before kick off when Sir Alex Ferguson( Manchester United manager) saw Manchester United manager and made me shave Manchester United manager off.
Different states shaved different amounts of votes, or the system was set up to shave and flip different votes in different states, some people were targeted as individual candidates. It’s really the most massive and historical egregious fraud the world has ever seen.
I used to say, every day, ‘I am so sick and tired of shaving.’ … And I just thought, the first thing I will do when I am not on TV is stop shaving. And everybody hates it. My wife hates it. My son hates it. But it’s interesting. I’ve kind of developed a real creepy look with it that I’m sort of enjoying. And I can tell that people are off-put by it. And the more people implore me to shave, the stronger my resolve is to not shave.
If a certain production step takes 40 seconds, and data analysis finds a way to shave four seconds from the process, output can be increased by up to 10 percent, and it doesn't cost us anything.
Translations for shave
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- حلق ذقن, حلق شعرArabic
- галі́цца, галі́цьBelarusian
- afaitar, rapar, afaitar-seCatalan, Valencian
- holit, oholitCzech
- barberingDanish
- rasieren, RasurGerman
- ξυρίζομαι, ξυρίζωGreek
- raziEsperanto
- afeitado, afeitar, rapar, rasurarSpanish
- parranajo, ajaa, ajella, siivuttaa, ajaa partansaFinnish
- raser, rasageFrench
- bearrIrish
- beàrrScottish Gaelic
- afeitarGalician
- התגלחHebrew
- borotválHungarian
- radersi, radereItalian
- [[ひげ]]を[[そる]], そるJapanese
- 면도하다Korean
- تهراشKurdish
- rādō, tondeō, abrādōLatin
- skūtLatvian
- heuMāori
- бричење, ре́жеMacedonian
- scheren, [[zich]] [[scheren]]Dutch
- ogolić się, golić się, golenie, ogolić, golićPolish
- barbear-se, raspar, barbearPortuguese
- bărbieri, a se bărbieri, radeRomanian
- побри́ть, побри́ться, брить, бри́ться, бритьёRussian
- holiť, oholiťSlovak
- obriti, britiSlovene
- raka, rakningSwedish
- ஷேவ்Tamil
- โกนThai
- tıraşTurkish
- голи́тися, голи́тиUkrainian
- גאָלןYiddish
- 刮胡子Chinese
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