Definitions for shave

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Spelling: [sheyv]

IPA: /ʃeɪv/

Shave is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 48 anagrams from letters in shave (aehsv).

Definitions for shave

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 (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 shave

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 shave

I could see him a little better, if he'd shave himself, and get his hair cut.'

There is a big difference between imagining not shaving and actually trying to not shave.

Being here, I may as well have a shave, and get trimmed close.'

The only time they asked me to do something was grow my hair so they could shave it in that one scene.

Budgets are out of control because government executives lack flexibility to shave here and there to make ends meet.

No shower, no shave, no quiet dinner, no walk; all that would have to come later.

All right—and I'll profit by the opportunity to have a shave.

According to Fahs, the “labor intensive” assignment “gives men some insight into what women who shave go through.”

Tipitina's in the warm blue fog, squatting beneath a crescent moon so sharp and clean you could shave a wild hog with it.

After I got home I did not shave for two days, and scarcely ever spoke.