shave

Pronunciation

• enPR: shāv IPA ^(key): /ʃeɪv/
• SAMPA: /SeIv/

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Verb

Plain form shave

Third-person singular shaves

Past tense shaved

Past participle shaved

Present participle shaving

1. (transitive) When you shave hair, you remove all of it with a sharp object such as a razor.

   After getting up in the morning, Trevor shaved off a day's growth of beard.

2. (transitive) When you shave meat, you cut it into very thin slices.

   The butcher shaved a quarter pound of roast beef, which I put in a sandwich.

Noun

Singular shave

Plural shaves

1. (countable) A shave is the act of shaving (hair being removed).

Related words

• shaver
• after shave
• close shave