SHAVE Synonyms

• a hairdresser who cuts hair and shaves beards as a trade

• United States composer (1910-1981)

• perform the services of a barber: cut the hair and/or beard of

• a metal frame or container holding cartridges; can be inserted into an automatic gun

• an instance or single occasion for some event

• any of various small fasteners used to hold loose articles together

• an article of jewelry that can be clipped onto a hat or dress

• the act of clipping or snipping

• a sharp slanting blow

• sever or remove by pinching or snipping

• run at a moderately swift pace

• attach with a clip

• cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of

• terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent

• the yield from plants in a single growing season

• a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale

• a collection of people or things appearing together

• the output of something in a season

• the stock or handle of a whip

• a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food

• cut short

• prepare for crops

• yield crops

• let feed in a field or pasture or meadow

• feed as in a meadow or pasture

• cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of

• separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument

• fashioned or shaped by cutting

• made neat and tidy by trimming

• (used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine

• (of pages of a book) having the folds of the leaves trimmed or slit

• a share of the profits

• (film) an immediate transition from one shot to the next

• a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation

• a step on some scale

• a wound made by cutting

• a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass

• a remark capable of wounding mentally

• a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc

• the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage

• the style in which a garment is cut

• a canal made by erosion or excavation

• a refusal to recognize someone you know

• in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball

• (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball

• the division of a deck of cards before dealing

• the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge

• the act of cutting something into parts

• the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends

• the act of reducing the amount or number

• an unexcused absence from class

• with parts removed

• (of a male animal) having the testicles removed

• (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply

• mixed with water

• separate with or as if with an instrument

• cut down on; make a reduction in

• turn sharply; change direction abruptly

• make an incision or separation

• discharge from a group

• form by probing, penetrating, or digging

• style and tailor in a certain fashion

• hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction

• make out and issue

• cut and assemble the components of

• intentionally fail to attend

• be able to manage or manage successfully

• give the appearance or impression of

• move (one's fist)

• pass directly and often in haste

• pass through or across

• make an abrupt change of image or sound

• stop filming

• make a recording of

• record a performance on (a medium)

• create by duplicating data

• form or shape by cutting or incising

• perform or carry out

• function as a cutting instrument

• allow incision or separation

• divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult

• cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch

• reap or harvest

• fell by sawing; hew

• penetrate injuriously

• refuse to acknowledge

• shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of

• weed out unwanted or unnecessary things

• dissolve by breaking down the fat of

• have a reducing effect

• cease, stop

• reduce in scope while retaining essential elements

• lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture

• have grow through the gums

• grow through the gums

• cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses)

• remove body hair

• a man participant in his own marriage ceremony

• someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses

• a man who has recently been married

• educate for a future role or function

• give a neat appearance to

• care for one's external appearance

• a loft in a barn where hay is stored

• cut with a blade or mower

• make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip

• decrease gradually or bit by bit

• cut small bits or pare shavings from

• remove the skin from

• remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size

• dried plum

• cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of

• weed out unwanted or unnecessary things

• degree of figurative distance or separation

• remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract

• remove from a position or an office

• dispose of

• cause to leave

• shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes

• stay away or leave

• kill intentionally and with premeditation

• get rid of something abstract

• a harsh noise made by scraping

• an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off

• a deep bow with the foot drawn backwards (indicating excessive humility)

• an indication of damage

• scratch repeatedly

• make by scraping

• cut the surface of; wear away the surface of

• bend the knees and bow in a servile manner

• gather (money or other resources) together over time

• bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of

• (physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves

• a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it

• cut with shears

• shear the wool from

• cut or cut through with shears

• become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain

• remove the surface of

• a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off)

• the act of clipping or snipping

• sever or remove by pinching or snipping

• cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of

• marked by order and cleanliness in appearance or habits

• receptacle that holds odds and ends (as sewing materials)

• (of hair) neat and tidy

• large in amount or extent or degree

• put (things or places) in order

• an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets

• (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape

• a level of existence or development

• a power tool for smoothing or shaping wood

• a carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood

• having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another

• cut or remove with or as if with a plane

• travel on the surface of water

• make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane

• the act of removing hair with a razor

• a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something

• the act of brushing against while passing

• get rid of (someone who may be a threat) by killing

• cut the price of

• take by theft

• write quickly

• stop pursuing or acting