Definitions for shaven

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shaven shav·en

Spelling: [shey-vuh n]

IPA: /ˈʃeɪ vən/

Shaven is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 98 anagrams from letters in shaven (aehnsv).

Definitions for shaven

noun

1. the act, process, or an instance of shaving or being shaved.
2. a thin slice; a shaving.
3. any of various tools for shaving, scraping, removing thin slices, etc.

verb

1. a past participle of shave.

adjective

1. closely trimmed.

verb (used with object)

1. to remove hair from (the face, legs, etc.) by cutting it off close to the skin with a razor.
2. to cut off (hair, especially the beard) close to the skin with a razor (often followed by off or away).
3. to cut or scrape away the surface of with a sharp-edged tool:
4. to reduce to shavings or thin slices:
5. to cut or trim closely:
6. to scrape, graze, or come very near to:
7. Commerce. to purchase (a note) at a rate of discount greater than is legal or customary.
8. to reduce or deduct from:

verb (used without object)

1. to remove a growth of beard with a razor.

Origin of shaven

before 900; (v.) Middle English schaven, schafen, Old English sc(e)afan; cognate with Dutch schaven to plane (a plank), abrade (the skin), Low German schaven, German schaben, Old Norse skafa

Examples for shaven

He was very fat, with a shaven, swarthy face and the dewlap of an ox.

I conceived a contempt for that shaven, scrawny skipper––I remember it well.

"H'm," said the shaven man, quite unmoved by the end of Harvey's speech.

On his shaven head he wore a small skull-cap of plaited grass.

A greasy growth of beard was sprouting on the shaven parts of the cheeks.

So that, apart from other missiles, our shaven heads were sure to be pelted with jeers.

They all wore ankle-length gowns, and they all had shaven heads.

They had dressed him in a gaberdine and set the yellow cap on his shaven poll.

Marry, saith she, to hear a shaven crown preach at the Cross!

"The babies of frogs will become but frogs," said one shaven pate, laughing.