Define:shave

shave
SHāv/
verb
1.
cut the hair off one’s face with a razor.
“he washed, shaved, and had breakfast”
synonyms: cut off, snip off;
2.
cut (a thin slice or slices) from the surface of something.
“scrape a large, sharp knife across the surface, shaving off rolls of very fine chocolate”
synonyms: plane, pare, whittle, scrape
“shave off excess wood”
3.
pass or send something close to (something else), missing it narrowly.
“Scott shaved the post in the 29th minute”
synonyms: graze, brush, touch, glance off, kiss
“the shot just shaved my arm”

noun
noun: shave; plural noun: shaves
1.
an act of shaving hair from the face or a part of the body.
“he always needed a shave”

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