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1. Having the beard or hair cut off close to the skin
   "When the Latins stormed the town by night, bearded knights 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
    
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, shaver, shaving, 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

Antonym: unshaven

Encyclopedia: Shave