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Shaving
/ˈʃeɪvɪŋ/
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.
📖 Definitions of "Shaving"
verb
- 1
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.
- 2
To cut anything in this fashion.
"The labourer with the bending scythe is seen / Shaving the surface of the waving green."
- 3
To remove hair from one's face by this means.
"I had little time to shave this morning."
- 4
To cut finely, as with slices of meat.
noun
- 1
A thin, shaved off slice of wood, metal, or other material.
- 2
The action of having a shave.
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