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shave
What does shave mean?
shave (verb): remove body hair with a razor.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use shave in a sentence?
- I had little time to shave this morning. (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0)
How do you pronounce shave?
/ʃeɪv/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does shave come from?
Inherited from Middle English shaven, schaven, from Old English sċafan (“to shave, scrape, shred, polish”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to shave
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “shave” mean?
remove body hair with a razor
Right! That's what “shave” means.
to bring (a thing) up to date
Not quite: that's what update means.
to move forwards; to approach
Not quite: that's what advance means.
to manage, control, or direct
Not quite: that's what handle means.
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