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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 | |
---|---|---|
#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?
I’ve kind of developed a real creepy look with it that I ’m sort of enjoying, 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.
Public Health Minister Ferozuddin Feroz:
We give them a proper shave, they will take a shower, winter clothing and treatment will follow, we will return them as normal members of society.
Ted Turner, A speech to the McCallie School in Chattanooga, TN:
Hell, we spent $200 Billion to get a scared guy who needed a shave out of a fox-hole! And he may even die of prostate cancer before we even get a chance to try him, dammit!
There are no horns or tails -- it's just a regular human being, she has to wear clothes and shave. She has dreams and hopes and failures and successes like anybody else.
Socialism is Bolshevism with a shave.
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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