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1. Having the beard or hair cut off close to the skin
   "they owed their death to the assumption that every Christian would be a shaven man";
   - shaved

1. Remove body hair with a razor
    
2. Cut closely
   "shave my beard";
   - trim
    
3. Cut the price of
   - knock off [informal]
    
4. Cut or remove with or as if with a plane
   "The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood";
   - plane
    
5. Make shavings of or reduce to shavings
   "shave the radish"
    
6. Touch the surface of lightly
   "His back shaved the counter in passing"

See also: beardless, clean-shaven, smooth-shaven, well-shaven, whiskerless

Type of: bring down, carve, crease, cut, cut back, cut down, cut up, graze, groom, neaten, rake, reduce, trim, trim back, trim down

Encyclopedia: Shave