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 say shaving in sign language?

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How to use shaving in a sentence?

1. Tom Torres:

   My life is all screwed up, that's the reason I was shaving on the train.

2. Woody Allen, Without Feathers:

   Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine, shall fall by pestilence so why bother shaving?

3. Georgia Hull:

   She can’t chew, and she’s eating mashed up foods and drinking through a straw. But we’re getting there. they are absolutely amazing and we can’t manage without them, she said. It saved an awful lot of time for us that day in getting her to hospital. We’ve got a lot of fundraising going on for the air ambulance as a result of this. The guy who drove Georgia from the track to meet the air ambulance, he has had a long beard for 20 years and at the Royal Cornwall Show he is shaving it off to raise funds.

4. Karl Turner:

   It is difficult to get certain things in Egypt apparently so she'd taken talcum powder, shaving gel and razorblades and all sorts of things, Karl Turner told the BBC. Clearly, [ she was ] very, very nave. The family describe Laura to me as somebody who is very nave.

5. Henry Ford:

   Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.