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- (verb): To make bald or shorter by using a tool such as a razor or pair of electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin.
- (verb): To cut anything in this fashion.
- (verb): To remove hair from one's face by this means.
- (verb): To cut finely, as with slices of meat.
- (verb): To skim along or near the surface of; to pass close to, or touch lightly, in passing.
- (verb): To reduce in size or weight.
- (verb): To be hard and severe in a bargain with; to practice extortion on; to cheat.
- (verb): To buy (a note) at a discount greater than the legal rate of interest, or to deduct in discounting it more than the legal rate allows.
- The labourer with the bending scythe is seen / Shaving the surface of the waving green.
- I had little time to shave this morning.