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1. Remove body hair with a razor
    
2. Cut closely
   - trim
    
3. Cut the price of
   - knock off
    
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"

1. The act of removing hair with a razor
   - shaving

Derived forms: shaved, shaven, shaving, shaves

See also: shaver, shaving

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

Encyclopedia: Shave