Definition of shave in English:

shave

verb ʃeɪvʃeɪv

1no object (of a man) cut the hair off the face with a razor.
剃须，刮脸，修面
he washed, shaved, and had breakfast
他洗脸，刮脸，然后吃早饭。
Example sentencesExamples
- He even shaved, although he had to borrow my razor.
- He had managed to tame his usually ruffled hair and he had shaved.
- The man shaving in his bathroom unconsciously nicks himself, while his wife goes about her mundane everyday duty of making his breakfast - perfectly.
- As the weeks went on, Kevin started shaving before he showed up on his son's meeting nights.
- Apparently, he hadn't shaved for a few days and his thick dark hair was in desperate need of a haircut.
- Maybe I'll just shave on days when I'm going to see Marianne.
- I noticed he had shaved and cut his hair so he resembled that boyish man I thought I knew three years ago.
- He hasn't shaved, his hair is unkempt and he's wearing the same clothes he left in three days ago.
- Sometimes, though, a simple operation can help, shaving off the bits of bone that have overgrown.
- And they were both accompanying this dude with brown hair that looked like he hadn't shaved for days.
- He'd not shaved, nor, from the looks of it, brushed his hair.
- And when she looked closer, she could tell he had shaved, and brushed his teeth and washed his hair.
- That's funnier if you know that he was shaving at the time and had no clothes on.
- He has not shaved in days, and knows something is wrong.
- Of all the men, he was the only one who looked as if he'd shaved or brushed his teeth during the last week.
- They celebrated, they played music, they danced, they crowded into movie theaters, men shaved.
- He can shave, drive, brush his teeth, write, dial a telephone, hold his children's hands, and feel sensations like pain and temperatures.
- There's a reason why he only shaves once a week - mirrors are expensive.
- Keith was shaving, and so I grabbed a clean towel and washed my face.
- Maybe if those guys shaved like everyone else they'd look good.
- He hadn't shaved in days and his brown hair was beginning to get greasy, not having been washed.
Synonyms
cut off, snip off
crop, trim, barber, tonsure
1. 1.1with object Cut the hair off (a part of the body) with a razor.
  剃须，刮脸，修面
  she shaved her legs
  她剃了腿上的汗毛。
  Example sentencesExamples
  I thanked the heaven that I had shaved my legs the previous day.
  Before the operation, part of the scrotum may need to be shaved to prevent hairs getting caught in the wound.
  His head and legs had been shaved in readiness for the electrodes.
  As a woman who does not shave her body, I have encountered many different perspectives on what women are supposed to be according to society.
  Either she was hairless or she shaved herself completely because there was not a whisper of hair.
  When I got home and I was shaving my legs I thought I was going to faint.
  She was in a black tank top and shorts, thanking gods that she had shaved her legs the day before.
  And the smaltz is shocking, we had to shave our whole bodies after the screening because we'd never have been able to wash to the cheese out of our hair.
  The area to be tattooed is shaved (to prevent hair clogging the machine), and disinfected with an antiseptic solution.
  Cecilia leaned over and picked up a razor and started to shave her legs while the conditioner settled into her hair.
  Thank the hallowed shrine of chipmunk heaven that I shaved my legs this morning.
  His head and legs had already been shaved and he had said good-bye to his mother in Edinburgh.
  A ‘pet trim’ involves shaving the body and creating a pompom effect on the tail and legs.
  Go to the link to see the photograph of the teenaged girl who is shaving her head bald so that she can stay in school.
2. 1.2with object Cut the hair off the face or another part of the body of (someone) with a razor.
  剃…上的毛
  the barber shaves customers with a traditional cut-throat razor
  Example sentencesExamples
  Will you drop this charade or am I going to have to shave you bald and put you out in the cold?
  One Friday, Claude sat as still as an angel on a church window while I brushed his hair and shaved him.
  I thought the barber might misunderstand me and shave me back to the Ching Dynasty.
  She took her time shaving him, making his face perfect, but from what she could see, even with the beard, he was beautifully made.
  The hind leg of each animal to be used was shaved prior to the experiment.
  Although he is a soldier, his only work so far is to tend to his captain's needs - taking off his jacket and shaving him while swallowing every harsh remark made to him by his superior.
  The nurse said that they were shaving him when he started crying.
  After shaving Ollie, the barber would apply talc to his cheeks and say, ‘nice-a-baby.’
  She'd been too busy trying not to cut him with the razor to notice when she'd shaved him.
  Me and Nancy were shaving him when he began to cry and he doesn't want explain us the problem.
  We will be shaving your most private places for this operation.
  Anyway, in the middle of my usual bath and hair shampoo routine, she gets out Dad's razor and shaves me!
  The barber, a small man with a bald, white fringed, head and bright blue eyes looked up from the man he was shaving.
  If it was the man who wanted a divorce, his wife could shave him and make him her slave.
  A couple of years ago, the vet accidentally shaved him.
  The circulating nurse shaves the patient's surgical leg from 3 inches to 4 inches above the knee to 4 inches below the patella, laterally and medially.
  He was thankful they hadn't shaved him bald yet, at least.
  The team was even shaved of their hair, forcing them to dawn similar masks to hide their bald heads.
  Besides cutting hair and shaving men, he was a dab hand at sharpening old style cut throat razors, as well as scissor sharpening.
  When a passer-by told him that he was offering his service to a government servant, Vairappan abruptly stopped shaving the official's beard.
3. 1.3 Cut (hair) off with a razor.
  剃须，刮脸，修面
  professional male swimmers shave off their body hair
  职业男子游泳运动员剃掉身上毛。
  Example sentencesExamples
  So he could better see his body, he shaved the hair from his chest.
  A small amount of hair may be shaved from your groin or arm where the catheter is inserted.
  Also round about this time fleas and body lice were rampant and so most people shaved their body hair.
  He said: ‘The only way to remove the evidence is to shave all body hair.’
  By age 10, most were shaving downy body hair to gain extra speed and realizing the reward for a year of hard work was improvement measured in tenths of a second.
  Another favourite jape is to get the bridegroom blind drunk and then shave off all his hair, including his eyebrows and where the sun does not shine.
  Papa had to shave his thick auburn hair because of a case of head lice.
  He's got contacts, and he recently shaved off his brown hair.
  The double picked up its razor and began to shave off the neglected facial hair.
  He had shaved off all of his hair when he was giving a show one night.
  It is a good idea to have a razor available to shave off any hair that may prevent the Band-Aid from sticking.
  Your hair will not be shaved, but it may be tied back into a ponytail if it is long.
  The ad commercial was to be shot in just over a day and I was asked to shave off my hair.
  He had black hair that was shaved down into a short cut.
  Now, their hair and beards will be shaved for hygienic purposes.
  Pink begins his transformation into a fascist leader in a painful scene of shaving his body hair.
  There is a young nun but her master has shaved off all her hair.
  However, I opted to shave all of my hair on this occasion.
  His hair had been shaved off but his eyebrows were black, or dark brown and his eyes a deep, drowning blue.
  He woke the next morning with a hangover like a gunshot wound and the discovery that his hair and eyebrows had been shaved off.
2with object Cut (a thin slice or slices) from the surface of something.
把…切刮出薄片
scrape a large sharp knife across the surface, shaving off rolls of very fine chocolate
用一把锋利大刀刮表面，削出细薄的巧克力卷。
Example sentencesExamples
- Get into the habit of shaving thin slices off a piece of cheese rather than cutting a large chunk.
- They can tell when the lid of a cookie jar has been disturbed and notice when a quarter inch slice has been shaved off a chocolate cake.
- Some lesions can be shaved down to the level of the surrounding skin, either using a surgical blade or electro-surgery, which uses an alternating current to destroy skin tissue.
- Like a sculptor shaving off bits of marble to shape a statue, organisms use cell death to shape developing organs, including the brain.
- By binding trees together, after shaving off some bark, the trees grow together from the point where they fuse.
- The secret is to shave lemon rind into the batter, but not too much.
- This year, for example, the Brussels sprouts might be shaved and sautéed with pine nuts and bacon.
- Truffles can be shaved and put into a sauce, under the skin of roasting chicken, or into a plate of eggs.
- Grate or shave the chocolate so that the pieces are small and thin enough to melt quickly.
- They can be used in any way celeriac is served and are particularly good with a simple oil-and-vinegar dressing into which a little onion has been shaved.
- Then he stands up and proceeds to shave very thin slices of cheese from a large wheel of Gouda.
- First he was the guy at the window of the kebab shop shaving off the slivers of meat, then he was the local sandwich-maker and now he appears to be selling all manner of household wares smaller than a toaster.
- This sort of abuse will break a too brittle blade or loosen a flimsy blade pivot, but it stood up to this challenge before shaving off more ribbons of paper as cleanly as it had at the beginning.
- The method by which it was proposed that the requisite reduction in weight would be effected was by shaving off the keel as cast the appropriate weight of lead.
- This was done by shaving off part of one of the sides, and then shaving off some of the thinnest edge to make a flat plank.
- The cross section of the cervical tissue containing both the epithelium and stroma was exposed by shaving off layers of the embedding medium and tissue using a cryostat.
- It also melts well; and is eaten as a table cheese - thin slivers shaved off it make a good appetizer.
- He shaved ultrathin slices from the samples and studied them under a light microscope.
- With the beveled side of the blade against the stone, rub the sharp edge of the blade toward the stone in a curved motion, as if you were trying to shave off a thin slice from the stone.
Synonyms
plane off, pare off, shear off, whittle off, scrape off
grate, shred
1. 2.1 Take (a small amount) from something.
  除去，去掉（很少的量）
  she shaved 0.5 seconds off the British junior record
  她把英国少年记录缩短了0.5秒。
  Example sentencesExamples
  If he'd just shave 20 minutes off his movies, he'd have a joyous, more focused audience walking out of the theatre.
  Opt for pumpkin pie instead of pecan and shave 200 calories off your meal.
  Half of the local authority buildings are leased, and the new building would shave a significant amount off its spending on rent.
  Further work now underway is expected to shave another 25 percent of the bulk and mass.
  About €25 billion was shaved from its market value last year.
  Will better skis, more expensive wax or an extra helping of spaghetti help me shave a few minutes off last year's time?
  For what it comes down to is shaving half an hour from the show.
  This shaves an impressive 4 oz of weight from the bantamweight pistol, which only tips the scales at 24 oz empty, with the mag.
  This tax benefit, acting essentially as a tax rebate, shaved off massive amounts of money from the tech company's tax bills.
  Then our time margins were further shaved by an additional hour waiting for the new replacement part for the copilot's instrument power generator.
  In the first case, you won't know the true dimensions, so you will build conservatively, shaving off inches to try to make sure that the bookcase will fit.
  All of the courses are modeled in the same manner, shaving off a polygon here and there to save on system resources.
  It is expected to generate up to a fifth of electricity used on campus, shaving some £3,000 off fuel bills each year.
  Even shaving just a small slice away from Democrats could prove pivotal to cementing the GOP's status as the majority party.
  It is paid not only for its participation in the program, but also based on the amount of power it shaves from its utility demand.
  The recession shaved another $929 billion from the surplus projection, or about one-quarter of the loss.
  Every little bit that's shaved or drilled off the pyramid is irreplaceable, and it represents an erosion of something that should be preserved.
  Some £10,000 will be shaved from the tourism marketing budget.
  By shaving off 5 degrees on each side of this orb, one notices another interesting phenomenon emerging.
  These engines are around 135 lb and some weight could be shaved off.
  Synonyms
  take off, remove from, lop off, cut off
2. 2.2 Reduce by a small amount.
  少量削减
  they shaved profit margins
  他们削减了利润幅度。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Market forces would have led carriers to tighten security and shave waiting time to lure back passengers.
  Why not carry out the entire drug discovery to drug manufacturing process out in the spirit of helping others, and shave costs by shaving profits?
  Because she works a busy sales and marketing job, shaving off a few dollars here and there is not a priority.
  Again and again, he is shaving away any decent territory for a Tory revival.
  Synonyms
  reduce, cut, bring down, lessen, decrease, make smaller, prune, pare down, shrink, slim down, whittle down
3with object Pass or send something close to (something else), missing it narrowly.
掠过；擦过
Scott shaved the post in the 29th minute
斯科特在29分钟时踢出的球擦门柱而过。
Example sentencesExamples
- McLaren's skimming drive shaved the outside of the post whilst Templeman finally showed his worth with a rising drive McGovern was only too happy to help over the bar.
- McLaren was often the instigator, and just after the hour mark, he danced to the byline and delivered a cross which caused a moment of panic for Nick Colgan, as it shaved his far post.
- He shaved the right hand post with his attempted conversion.
- On the hour mark Moreau picked out Fernandez in the box and he looked sure to score, but the outcome was another near miss, his shot shaving the post.
- Shane Glover went close for Harps as did Patrick Dowling when his volley shaved the upright.
- A few of our kicks shaved the post and in the end there were only two points in it.
- Villa were unlucky after only five minutes when Brian Kenny shot just shaved the post.
- The first warning sign this time came when Henry fed a square pass to Dennis Bergkamp, whose drive from 20 yards shaved a post.
- The ball shaved the wrong side of the post and sent the Town supporters delirious.
- Chris Ince had a goal disallowed and Tim Downie shaved a post after a fine run, while Chris Burn pulled off several fine stops in the York goal.
- He firstly saw his shot gathered by Stuart Addis and then shaved the post with a long range effort from the right wing.
- He went tantalisingly close to levelling the game when two long range penalties shaved the outside of the posts.
- Kicking into the teeth of a severe wind Ryan Cunningham was unfortunate in just shaving the posts.
- United narrowly escaped going three behind when Kerr let loose from long range with his drive shaving the right-hand post.
- He then went close for the Rams but his shot narrowly shaved the crossbar.
- That the Faroes would not be easily subdued was clear early in the second half when an exquisite Borg free kick from 25 yards out shaved the junction of Scotland's bar and post.
- He twice went close early in the second spell shaving the framework first with a header, then a shot.
- They both had good efforts, the Norwegian's shot shaving the outside of a post.
- While they did kick a few wides in the second quarter most of them were shots that just shaved the post on the wrong side.
- He beat two defenders before unleashing a powerful low ball that shaved the inside of the post for a brilliant goal.
Synonyms
touch lightly, brush, brush against, graze, glance off, kiss

noun ʃeɪvʃeɪv

An act of shaving hair from the face or a part of the body.
修面，刮脸；剃毛发
you need a shave
Example sentencesExamples
- This year, three club members are growing their hair for a head shave at the event, where they can hopefully retain the title of leading fundraising team.
- Having a shave and getting rid of unwanted body hair in the heat or sauna is also supposed to be relaxing for the nerves and skin.
- That said, there's less razor burn than from other electric razors I've used, but far more than I get from a normal wet shave.
- Other than that, a new shirt and decent shave wouldn't hurt.
- Rather than stand in awe of his suppressed and frustrated creative forces I'm more inclined to tell him, sharply, to have a shower and a shave and put some clean clothes on, for goodness sake.
- Olive oil is actually wonderful for your skin in general and, when used in place of shaving cream, can provide you with a much closer shave.
- The blade will glide over your scalp, giving you one great shave.
- So, seeing as how it is part of a clean-cut look men are trying to perfect, here are some tips on getting that perfect, nick-free shave.
- It will hold moisture on the leg longer and provide a very smooth shave.
- Like Brecht, he always seemed exactly three days away from a shave, a minor physiological miracle.
- He had started when there was no electricity in the town and in his first years carried out more shaves than hair cuts.
- But when the curtain came down on the final show Terry took centre stage with a sponsored shave of not just his facial hair - but his entire head.
- She would not take the time to scrape her scalp clean in a shave… but her hair needed to be as short as she could manage it this day.
- I've had my hair cut and a shave and tomorrow I'm going to grab myself a job hopefully.
- The consequence that interests us the most here is that you'll be able to achieve a much closer shave.
- Smear on a little and your razor just glides over your skin, giving you a super-close, super-silky shave.
- Fifteen days later, the transgenic mice needed another shave, but there were no signs of new hair growth on the control mice.
- He had longish brown hair and looked like he hadn't had a shave in weeks.
- He had to admit he felt better after a long hot shower, a shave and clean clothes.
- Inside the second wardrobe were more clothes - a man's clothes, and on the washstand basin were a few short light hairs from a recent shave.

Origin

Old English sc(e)afan 'scrape away the surface of (something) by paring', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schaven and German schaben.

Rhymes

behave, brave, Cave, clave, concave, crave, Dave, deprave, engrave, enslave, fave, forgave, gave, grave, knave, lave, Maeve, misbehave, misgave, nave, outbrave, pave, rave, save, shortwave, slave, stave, they've, waive, wave

Definition of shave in US English:

shave

verbʃeɪvSHāv

1no object Cut the hair off one's face with a razor.
剃须，刮脸，修面
he washed, shaved, and had breakfast
他洗脸，刮脸，然后吃早饭。
Example sentencesExamples
- Sometimes, though, a simple operation can help, shaving off the bits of bone that have overgrown.
- Maybe I'll just shave on days when I'm going to see Marianne.
- He has not shaved in days, and knows something is wrong.
- He'd not shaved, nor, from the looks of it, brushed his hair.
- Maybe if those guys shaved like everyone else they'd look good.
- He hadn't shaved in days and his brown hair was beginning to get greasy, not having been washed.
- That's funnier if you know that he was shaving at the time and had no clothes on.
- I noticed he had shaved and cut his hair so he resembled that boyish man I thought I knew three years ago.
- And when she looked closer, she could tell he had shaved, and brushed his teeth and washed his hair.
- He can shave, drive, brush his teeth, write, dial a telephone, hold his children's hands, and feel sensations like pain and temperatures.
- He had managed to tame his usually ruffled hair and he had shaved.
- They celebrated, they played music, they danced, they crowded into movie theaters, men shaved.
- He even shaved, although he had to borrow my razor.
- As the weeks went on, Kevin started shaving before he showed up on his son's meeting nights.
- Of all the men, he was the only one who looked as if he'd shaved or brushed his teeth during the last week.
- There's a reason why he only shaves once a week - mirrors are expensive.
- Apparently, he hadn't shaved for a few days and his thick dark hair was in desperate need of a haircut.
- And they were both accompanying this dude with brown hair that looked like he hadn't shaved for days.
- The man shaving in his bathroom unconsciously nicks himself, while his wife goes about her mundane everyday duty of making his breakfast - perfectly.
- Keith was shaving, and so I grabbed a clean towel and washed my face.
- He hasn't shaved, his hair is unkempt and he's wearing the same clothes he left in three days ago.
Synonyms
cut off, snip off
1. 1.1with object Cut the hair off (a part of the body) with a razor.
  剃须，刮脸，修面
  she shaved her legs
  她剃了腿上的汗毛。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The area to be tattooed is shaved (to prevent hair clogging the machine), and disinfected with an antiseptic solution.
  She was in a black tank top and shorts, thanking gods that she had shaved her legs the day before.
  When I got home and I was shaving my legs I thought I was going to faint.
  A ‘pet trim’ involves shaving the body and creating a pompom effect on the tail and legs.
  Thank the hallowed shrine of chipmunk heaven that I shaved my legs this morning.
  His head and legs had been shaved in readiness for the electrodes.
  Before the operation, part of the scrotum may need to be shaved to prevent hairs getting caught in the wound.
  As a woman who does not shave her body, I have encountered many different perspectives on what women are supposed to be according to society.
  I thanked the heaven that I had shaved my legs the previous day.
  Cecilia leaned over and picked up a razor and started to shave her legs while the conditioner settled into her hair.
  Either she was hairless or she shaved herself completely because there was not a whisper of hair.
  His head and legs had already been shaved and he had said good-bye to his mother in Edinburgh.
  Go to the link to see the photograph of the teenaged girl who is shaving her head bald so that she can stay in school.
  And the smaltz is shocking, we had to shave our whole bodies after the screening because we'd never have been able to wash to the cheese out of our hair.
2. 1.2with object Cut the hair off the face or another part of the body of (someone) with a razor.
  剃…上的毛
  the barber shaves customers with a traditional cut-throat razor
  Example sentencesExamples
  I thought the barber might misunderstand me and shave me back to the Ching Dynasty.
  One Friday, Claude sat as still as an angel on a church window while I brushed his hair and shaved him.
  When a passer-by told him that he was offering his service to a government servant, Vairappan abruptly stopped shaving the official's beard.
  The hind leg of each animal to be used was shaved prior to the experiment.
  Me and Nancy were shaving him when he began to cry and he doesn't want explain us the problem.
  She took her time shaving him, making his face perfect, but from what she could see, even with the beard, he was beautifully made.
  The circulating nurse shaves the patient's surgical leg from 3 inches to 4 inches above the knee to 4 inches below the patella, laterally and medially.
  She'd been too busy trying not to cut him with the razor to notice when she'd shaved him.
  The team was even shaved of their hair, forcing them to dawn similar masks to hide their bald heads.
  Anyway, in the middle of my usual bath and hair shampoo routine, she gets out Dad's razor and shaves me!
  We will be shaving your most private places for this operation.
  If it was the man who wanted a divorce, his wife could shave him and make him her slave.
  A couple of years ago, the vet accidentally shaved him.
  Although he is a soldier, his only work so far is to tend to his captain's needs - taking off his jacket and shaving him while swallowing every harsh remark made to him by his superior.
  After shaving Ollie, the barber would apply talc to his cheeks and say, ‘nice-a-baby.’
  The barber, a small man with a bald, white fringed, head and bright blue eyes looked up from the man he was shaving.
  He was thankful they hadn't shaved him bald yet, at least.
  The nurse said that they were shaving him when he started crying.
  Will you drop this charade or am I going to have to shave you bald and put you out in the cold?
  Besides cutting hair and shaving men, he was a dab hand at sharpening old style cut throat razors, as well as scissor sharpening.
3. 1.3 Cut (hair) off with a razor.
  剃须，刮脸，修面
  professional male swimmers shave off their body hair
  职业男子游泳运动员剃掉身上毛。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He said: ‘The only way to remove the evidence is to shave all body hair.’
  Your hair will not be shaved, but it may be tied back into a ponytail if it is long.
  He's got contacts, and he recently shaved off his brown hair.
  He had shaved off all of his hair when he was giving a show one night.
  His hair had been shaved off but his eyebrows were black, or dark brown and his eyes a deep, drowning blue.
  There is a young nun but her master has shaved off all her hair.
  By age 10, most were shaving downy body hair to gain extra speed and realizing the reward for a year of hard work was improvement measured in tenths of a second.
  It is a good idea to have a razor available to shave off any hair that may prevent the Band-Aid from sticking.
  However, I opted to shave all of my hair on this occasion.
  So he could better see his body, he shaved the hair from his chest.
  Papa had to shave his thick auburn hair because of a case of head lice.
  Another favourite jape is to get the bridegroom blind drunk and then shave off all his hair, including his eyebrows and where the sun does not shine.
  He woke the next morning with a hangover like a gunshot wound and the discovery that his hair and eyebrows had been shaved off.
  Pink begins his transformation into a fascist leader in a painful scene of shaving his body hair.
  The ad commercial was to be shot in just over a day and I was asked to shave off my hair.
  Now, their hair and beards will be shaved for hygienic purposes.
  He had black hair that was shaved down into a short cut.
  The double picked up its razor and began to shave off the neglected facial hair.
  A small amount of hair may be shaved from your groin or arm where the catheter is inserted.
  Also round about this time fleas and body lice were rampant and so most people shaved their body hair.
2with object Cut (a thin slice or slices) from the surface of something.
把…切刮出薄片
scrape a large sharp knife across the surface, shaving off rolls of very fine chocolate
用一把锋利大刀刮表面，削出细薄的巧克力卷。
Example sentencesExamples
- The secret is to shave lemon rind into the batter, but not too much.
- Then he stands up and proceeds to shave very thin slices of cheese from a large wheel of Gouda.
- They can tell when the lid of a cookie jar has been disturbed and notice when a quarter inch slice has been shaved off a chocolate cake.
- This year, for example, the Brussels sprouts might be shaved and sautéed with pine nuts and bacon.
- He shaved ultrathin slices from the samples and studied them under a light microscope.
- Grate or shave the chocolate so that the pieces are small and thin enough to melt quickly.
- This sort of abuse will break a too brittle blade or loosen a flimsy blade pivot, but it stood up to this challenge before shaving off more ribbons of paper as cleanly as it had at the beginning.
- It also melts well; and is eaten as a table cheese - thin slivers shaved off it make a good appetizer.
- Truffles can be shaved and put into a sauce, under the skin of roasting chicken, or into a plate of eggs.
- First he was the guy at the window of the kebab shop shaving off the slivers of meat, then he was the local sandwich-maker and now he appears to be selling all manner of household wares smaller than a toaster.
- Like a sculptor shaving off bits of marble to shape a statue, organisms use cell death to shape developing organs, including the brain.
- With the beveled side of the blade against the stone, rub the sharp edge of the blade toward the stone in a curved motion, as if you were trying to shave off a thin slice from the stone.
- They can be used in any way celeriac is served and are particularly good with a simple oil-and-vinegar dressing into which a little onion has been shaved.
- This was done by shaving off part of one of the sides, and then shaving off some of the thinnest edge to make a flat plank.
- The cross section of the cervical tissue containing both the epithelium and stroma was exposed by shaving off layers of the embedding medium and tissue using a cryostat.
- By binding trees together, after shaving off some bark, the trees grow together from the point where they fuse.
- Get into the habit of shaving thin slices off a piece of cheese rather than cutting a large chunk.
- Some lesions can be shaved down to the level of the surrounding skin, either using a surgical blade or electro-surgery, which uses an alternating current to destroy skin tissue.
- The method by which it was proposed that the requisite reduction in weight would be effected was by shaving off the keel as cast the appropriate weight of lead.
Synonyms
plane off, pare off, shear off, whittle off, scrape off
grate, shred
1. 2.1 Remove (a small amount) from something.
  除去，去掉（很少的量）
  she shaved 0.5 seconds off the record
  她把英国少年记录缩短了0.5秒。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It is expected to generate up to a fifth of electricity used on campus, shaving some £3,000 off fuel bills each year.
  By shaving off 5 degrees on each side of this orb, one notices another interesting phenomenon emerging.
  All of the courses are modeled in the same manner, shaving off a polygon here and there to save on system resources.
  About €25 billion was shaved from its market value last year.
  This tax benefit, acting essentially as a tax rebate, shaved off massive amounts of money from the tech company's tax bills.
  Even shaving just a small slice away from Democrats could prove pivotal to cementing the GOP's status as the majority party.
  Half of the local authority buildings are leased, and the new building would shave a significant amount off its spending on rent.
  In the first case, you won't know the true dimensions, so you will build conservatively, shaving off inches to try to make sure that the bookcase will fit.
  Then our time margins were further shaved by an additional hour waiting for the new replacement part for the copilot's instrument power generator.
  Will better skis, more expensive wax or an extra helping of spaghetti help me shave a few minutes off last year's time?
  The recession shaved another $929 billion from the surplus projection, or about one-quarter of the loss.
  Opt for pumpkin pie instead of pecan and shave 200 calories off your meal.
  If he'd just shave 20 minutes off his movies, he'd have a joyous, more focused audience walking out of the theatre.
  Further work now underway is expected to shave another 25 percent of the bulk and mass.
  This shaves an impressive 4 oz of weight from the bantamweight pistol, which only tips the scales at 24 oz empty, with the mag.
  Every little bit that's shaved or drilled off the pyramid is irreplaceable, and it represents an erosion of something that should be preserved.
  Some £10,000 will be shaved from the tourism marketing budget.
  These engines are around 135 lb and some weight could be shaved off.
  For what it comes down to is shaving half an hour from the show.
  It is paid not only for its participation in the program, but also based on the amount of power it shaves from its utility demand.
  Synonyms
  take off, remove from, lop off, cut off
2. 2.2 Reduce by a small amount.
  少量削减
  they shaved profit margins
  他们削减了利润幅度。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Again and again, he is shaving away any decent territory for a Tory revival.
  Why not carry out the entire drug discovery to drug manufacturing process out in the spirit of helping others, and shave costs by shaving profits?
  Because she works a busy sales and marketing job, shaving off a few dollars here and there is not a priority.
  Market forces would have led carriers to tighten security and shave waiting time to lure back passengers.
  Synonyms
  reduce, cut, bring down, lessen, decrease, make smaller, prune, pare down, shrink, slim down, whittle down
3with object Pass or send something close to (something else), missing it narrowly.
掠过；擦过
Scott shaved the post in the 29th minute
斯科特在29分钟时踢出的球擦门柱而过。
Example sentencesExamples
- He then went close for the Rams but his shot narrowly shaved the crossbar.
- Villa were unlucky after only five minutes when Brian Kenny shot just shaved the post.
- Kicking into the teeth of a severe wind Ryan Cunningham was unfortunate in just shaving the posts.
- United narrowly escaped going three behind when Kerr let loose from long range with his drive shaving the right-hand post.
- On the hour mark Moreau picked out Fernandez in the box and he looked sure to score, but the outcome was another near miss, his shot shaving the post.
- The first warning sign this time came when Henry fed a square pass to Dennis Bergkamp, whose drive from 20 yards shaved a post.
- That the Faroes would not be easily subdued was clear early in the second half when an exquisite Borg free kick from 25 yards out shaved the junction of Scotland's bar and post.
- A few of our kicks shaved the post and in the end there were only two points in it.
- He shaved the right hand post with his attempted conversion.
- Shane Glover went close for Harps as did Patrick Dowling when his volley shaved the upright.
- He went tantalisingly close to levelling the game when two long range penalties shaved the outside of the posts.
- Chris Ince had a goal disallowed and Tim Downie shaved a post after a fine run, while Chris Burn pulled off several fine stops in the York goal.
- He twice went close early in the second spell shaving the framework first with a header, then a shot.
- He beat two defenders before unleashing a powerful low ball that shaved the inside of the post for a brilliant goal.
- He firstly saw his shot gathered by Stuart Addis and then shaved the post with a long range effort from the right wing.
- They both had good efforts, the Norwegian's shot shaving the outside of a post.
- The ball shaved the wrong side of the post and sent the Town supporters delirious.
- McLaren's skimming drive shaved the outside of the post whilst Templeman finally showed his worth with a rising drive McGovern was only too happy to help over the bar.
- McLaren was often the instigator, and just after the hour mark, he danced to the byline and delivered a cross which caused a moment of panic for Nick Colgan, as it shaved his far post.
- While they did kick a few wides in the second quarter most of them were shots that just shaved the post on the wrong side.
Synonyms
touch lightly, brush, brush against, graze, glance off, kiss

nounʃeɪvSHāv

An act of shaving hair from the face or a part of the body.
修面，刮脸；剃毛发
you need a shave
Example sentencesExamples
- He had to admit he felt better after a long hot shower, a shave and clean clothes.
- She would not take the time to scrape her scalp clean in a shave… but her hair needed to be as short as she could manage it this day.
- It will hold moisture on the leg longer and provide a very smooth shave.
- I've had my hair cut and a shave and tomorrow I'm going to grab myself a job hopefully.
- Rather than stand in awe of his suppressed and frustrated creative forces I'm more inclined to tell him, sharply, to have a shower and a shave and put some clean clothes on, for goodness sake.
- The blade will glide over your scalp, giving you one great shave.
- Olive oil is actually wonderful for your skin in general and, when used in place of shaving cream, can provide you with a much closer shave.
- Like Brecht, he always seemed exactly three days away from a shave, a minor physiological miracle.
- This year, three club members are growing their hair for a head shave at the event, where they can hopefully retain the title of leading fundraising team.
- So, seeing as how it is part of a clean-cut look men are trying to perfect, here are some tips on getting that perfect, nick-free shave.
- That said, there's less razor burn than from other electric razors I've used, but far more than I get from a normal wet shave.
- He had started when there was no electricity in the town and in his first years carried out more shaves than hair cuts.
- The consequence that interests us the most here is that you'll be able to achieve a much closer shave.
- He had longish brown hair and looked like he hadn't had a shave in weeks.
- Fifteen days later, the transgenic mice needed another shave, but there were no signs of new hair growth on the control mice.
- Other than that, a new shirt and decent shave wouldn't hurt.
- Having a shave and getting rid of unwanted body hair in the heat or sauna is also supposed to be relaxing for the nerves and skin.
- Inside the second wardrobe were more clothes - a man's clothes, and on the washstand basin were a few short light hairs from a recent shave.
- But when the curtain came down on the final show Terry took centre stage with a sponsored shave of not just his facial hair - but his entire head.
- Smear on a little and your razor just glides over your skin, giving you a super-close, super-silky shave.

Origin

Old English sc(e)afan ‘scrape away the surface of (something) by paring’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schaven and German schaben.

词汇	shave
释义	Definition of shave in English: shave verb ʃeɪvʃeɪv 1no object (of a man) cut the hair off the face with a razor. 剃须，刮脸，修面 he washed, shaved, and had breakfast 他洗脸，刮脸，然后吃早饭。 Example sentencesExamples He even shaved, although he had to borrow my razor. He had managed to tame his usually ruffled hair and he had shaved. The man shaving in his bathroom unconsciously nicks himself, while his wife goes about her mundane everyday duty of making his breakfast - perfectly. As the weeks went on, Kevin started shaving before he showed up on his son's meeting nights. Apparently, he hadn't shaved for a few days and his thick dark hair was in desperate need of a haircut. Maybe I'll just shave on days when I'm going to see Marianne. I noticed he had shaved and cut his hair so he resembled that boyish man I thought I knew three years ago. He hasn't shaved, his hair is unkempt and he's wearing the same clothes he left in three days ago. Sometimes, though, a simple operation can help, shaving off the bits of bone that have overgrown. And they were both accompanying this dude with brown hair that looked like he hadn't shaved for days. He'd not shaved, nor, from the looks of it, brushed his hair. And when she looked closer, she could tell he had shaved, and brushed his teeth and washed his hair. That's funnier if you know that he was shaving at the time and had no clothes on. He has not shaved in days, and knows something is wrong. Of all the men, he was the only one who looked as if he'd shaved or brushed his teeth during the last week. They celebrated, they played music, they danced, they crowded into movie theaters, men shaved. He can shave, drive, brush his teeth, write, dial a telephone, hold his children's hands, and feel sensations like pain and temperatures. There's a reason why he only shaves once a week - mirrors are expensive. Keith was shaving, and so I grabbed a clean towel and washed my face. Maybe if those guys shaved like everyone else they'd look good. He hadn't shaved in days and his brown hair was beginning to get greasy, not having been washed. Synonyms cut off, snip off crop, trim, barber, tonsure 1.1with object Cut the hair off (a part of the body) with a razor. 剃须，刮脸，修面 she shaved her legs 她剃了腿上的汗毛。 Example sentencesExamples I thanked the heaven that I had shaved my legs the previous day. Before the operation, part of the scrotum may need to be shaved to prevent hairs getting caught in the wound. His head and legs had been shaved in readiness for the electrodes. As a woman who does not shave her body, I have encountered many different perspectives on what women are supposed to be according to society. Either she was hairless or she shaved herself completely because there was not a whisper of hair. When I got home and I was shaving my legs I thought I was going to faint. She was in a black tank top and shorts, thanking gods that she had shaved her legs the day before. And the smaltz is shocking, we had to shave our whole bodies after the screening because we'd never have been able to wash to the cheese out of our hair. The area to be tattooed is shaved (to prevent hair clogging the machine), and disinfected with an antiseptic solution. Cecilia leaned over and picked up a razor and started to shave her legs while the conditioner settled into her hair. Thank the hallowed shrine of chipmunk heaven that I shaved my legs this morning. His head and legs had already been shaved and he had said good-bye to his mother in Edinburgh. A ‘pet trim’ involves shaving the body and creating a pompom effect on the tail and legs. Go to the link to see the photograph of the teenaged girl who is shaving her head bald so that she can stay in school. 1.2with object Cut the hair off the face or another part of the body of (someone) with a razor. 剃…上的毛 the barber shaves customers with a traditional cut-throat razor Example sentencesExamples Will you drop this charade or am I going to have to shave you bald and put you out in the cold? One Friday, Claude sat as still as an angel on a church window while I brushed his hair and shaved him. I thought the barber might misunderstand me and shave me back to the Ching Dynasty. She took her time shaving him, making his face perfect, but from what she could see, even with the beard, he was beautifully made. The hind leg of each animal to be used was shaved prior to the experiment. Although he is a soldier, his only work so far is to tend to his captain's needs - taking off his jacket and shaving him while swallowing every harsh remark made to him by his superior. The nurse said that they were shaving him when he started crying. After shaving Ollie, the barber would apply talc to his cheeks and say, ‘nice-a-baby.’ She'd been too busy trying not to cut him with the razor to notice when she'd shaved him. Me and Nancy were shaving him when he began to cry and he doesn't want explain us the problem. We will be shaving your most private places for this operation. Anyway, in the middle of my usual bath and hair shampoo routine, she gets out Dad's razor and shaves me! The barber, a small man with a bald, white fringed, head and bright blue eyes looked up from the man he was shaving. If it was the man who wanted a divorce, his wife could shave him and make him her slave. A couple of years ago, the vet accidentally shaved him. The circulating nurse shaves the patient's surgical leg from 3 inches to 4 inches above the knee to 4 inches below the patella, laterally and medially. He was thankful they hadn't shaved him bald yet, at least. The team was even shaved of their hair, forcing them to dawn similar masks to hide their bald heads. Besides cutting hair and shaving men, he was a dab hand at sharpening old style cut throat razors, as well as scissor sharpening. When a passer-by told him that he was offering his service to a government servant, Vairappan abruptly stopped shaving the official's beard. 1.3 Cut (hair) off with a razor. 剃须，刮脸，修面 professional male swimmers shave off their body hair 职业男子游泳运动员剃掉身上毛。 Example sentencesExamples So he could better see his body, he shaved the hair from his chest. A small amount of hair may be shaved from your groin or arm where the catheter is inserted. Also round about this time fleas and body lice were rampant and so most people shaved their body hair. He said: ‘The only way to remove the evidence is to shave all body hair.’ By age 10, most were shaving downy body hair to gain extra speed and realizing the reward for a year of hard work was improvement measured in tenths of a second. Another favourite jape is to get the bridegroom blind drunk and then shave off all his hair, including his eyebrows and where the sun does not shine. Papa had to shave his thick auburn hair because of a case of head lice. He's got contacts, and he recently shaved off his brown hair. The double picked up its razor and began to shave off the neglected facial hair. He had shaved off all of his hair when he was giving a show one night. It is a good idea to have a razor available to shave off any hair that may prevent the Band-Aid from sticking. Your hair will not be shaved, but it may be tied back into a ponytail if it is long. The ad commercial was to be shot in just over a day and I was asked to shave off my hair. He had black hair that was shaved down into a short cut. Now, their hair and beards will be shaved for hygienic purposes. Pink begins his transformation into a fascist leader in a painful scene of shaving his body hair. There is a young nun but her master has shaved off all her hair. However, I opted to shave all of my hair on this occasion. His hair had been shaved off but his eyebrows were black, or dark brown and his eyes a deep, drowning blue. He woke the next morning with a hangover like a gunshot wound and the discovery that his hair and eyebrows had been shaved off. 2with object Cut (a thin slice or slices) from the surface of something. 把…切刮出薄片 scrape a large sharp knife across the surface, shaving off rolls of very fine chocolate 用一把锋利大刀刮表面，削出细薄的巧克力卷。 Example sentencesExamples Get into the habit of shaving thin slices off a piece of cheese rather than cutting a large chunk. They can tell when the lid of a cookie jar has been disturbed and notice when a quarter inch slice has been shaved off a chocolate cake. Some lesions can be shaved down to the level of the surrounding skin, either using a surgical blade or electro-surgery, which uses an alternating current to destroy skin tissue. Like a sculptor shaving off bits of marble to shape a statue, organisms use cell death to shape developing organs, including the brain. By binding trees together, after shaving off some bark, the trees grow together from the point where they fuse. The secret is to shave lemon rind into the batter, but not too much. This year, for example, the Brussels sprouts might be shaved and sautéed with pine nuts and bacon. Truffles can be shaved and put into a sauce, under the skin of roasting chicken, or into a plate of eggs. Grate or shave the chocolate so that the pieces are small and thin enough to melt quickly. They can be used in any way celeriac is served and are particularly good with a simple oil-and-vinegar dressing into which a little onion has been shaved. Then he stands up and proceeds to shave very thin slices of cheese from a large wheel of Gouda. First he was the guy at the window of the kebab shop shaving off the slivers of meat, then he was the local sandwich-maker and now he appears to be selling all manner of household wares smaller than a toaster. This sort of abuse will break a too brittle blade or loosen a flimsy blade pivot, but it stood up to this challenge before shaving off more ribbons of paper as cleanly as it had at the beginning. The method by which it was proposed that the requisite reduction in weight would be effected was by shaving off the keel as cast the appropriate weight of lead. This was done by shaving off part of one of the sides, and then shaving off some of the thinnest edge to make a flat plank. The cross section of the cervical tissue containing both the epithelium and stroma was exposed by shaving off layers of the embedding medium and tissue using a cryostat. It also melts well; and is eaten as a table cheese - thin slivers shaved off it make a good appetizer. He shaved ultrathin slices from the samples and studied them under a light microscope. With the beveled side of the blade against the stone, rub the sharp edge of the blade toward the stone in a curved motion, as if you were trying to shave off a thin slice from the stone. Synonyms plane off, pare off, shear off, whittle off, scrape off grate, shred 2.1 Take (a small amount) from something. 除去，去掉（很少的量） she shaved 0.5 seconds off the British junior record 她把英国少年记录缩短了0.5秒。 Example sentencesExamples If he'd just shave 20 minutes off his movies, he'd have a joyous, more focused audience walking out of the theatre. Opt for pumpkin pie instead of pecan and shave 200 calories off your meal. Half of the local authority buildings are leased, and the new building would shave a significant amount off its spending on rent. Further work now underway is expected to shave another 25 percent of the bulk and mass. About €25 billion was shaved from its market value last year. Will better skis, more expensive wax or an extra helping of spaghetti help me shave a few minutes off last year's time? For what it comes down to is shaving half an hour from the show. This shaves an impressive 4 oz of weight from the bantamweight pistol, which only tips the scales at 24 oz empty, with the mag. This tax benefit, acting essentially as a tax rebate, shaved off massive amounts of money from the tech company's tax bills. Then our time margins were further shaved by an additional hour waiting for the new replacement part for the copilot's instrument power generator. In the first case, you won't know the true dimensions, so you will build conservatively, shaving off inches to try to make sure that the bookcase will fit. All of the courses are modeled in the same manner, shaving off a polygon here and there to save on system resources. It is expected to generate up to a fifth of electricity used on campus, shaving some £3,000 off fuel bills each year. Even shaving just a small slice away from Democrats could prove pivotal to cementing the GOP's status as the majority party. It is paid not only for its participation in the program, but also based on the amount of power it shaves from its utility demand. The recession shaved another $929 billion from the surplus projection, or about one-quarter of the loss. Every little bit that's shaved or drilled off the pyramid is irreplaceable, and it represents an erosion of something that should be preserved. Some £10,000 will be shaved from the tourism marketing budget. By shaving off 5 degrees on each side of this orb, one notices another interesting phenomenon emerging. These engines are around 135 lb and some weight could be shaved off. Synonyms take off, remove from, lop off, cut off 2.2 Reduce by a small amount. 少量削减 they shaved profit margins 他们削减了利润幅度。 Example sentencesExamples Market forces would have led carriers to tighten security and shave waiting time to lure back passengers. Why not carry out the entire drug discovery to drug manufacturing process out in the spirit of helping others, and shave costs by shaving profits? Because she works a busy sales and marketing job, shaving off a few dollars here and there is not a priority. Again and again, he is shaving away any decent territory for a Tory revival. Synonyms reduce, cut, bring down, lessen, decrease, make smaller, prune, pare down, shrink, slim down, whittle down 3with object Pass or send something close to (something else), missing it narrowly. 掠过；擦过 Scott shaved the post in the 29th minute 斯科特在29分钟时踢出的球擦门柱而过。 Example sentencesExamples McLaren's skimming drive shaved the outside of the post whilst Templeman finally showed his worth with a rising drive McGovern was only too happy to help over the bar. McLaren was often the instigator, and just after the hour mark, he danced to the byline and delivered a cross which caused a moment of panic for Nick Colgan, as it shaved his far post. He shaved the right hand post with his attempted conversion. On the hour mark Moreau picked out Fernandez in the box and he looked sure to score, but the outcome was another near miss, his shot shaving the post. Shane Glover went close for Harps as did Patrick Dowling when his volley shaved the upright. A few of our kicks shaved the post and in the end there were only two points in it. Villa were unlucky after only five minutes when Brian Kenny shot just shaved the post. The first warning sign this time came when Henry fed a square pass to Dennis Bergkamp, whose drive from 20 yards shaved a post. The ball shaved the wrong side of the post and sent the Town supporters delirious. Chris Ince had a goal disallowed and Tim Downie shaved a post after a fine run, while Chris Burn pulled off several fine stops in the York goal. He firstly saw his shot gathered by Stuart Addis and then shaved the post with a long range effort from the right wing. He went tantalisingly close to levelling the game when two long range penalties shaved the outside of the posts. Kicking into the teeth of a severe wind Ryan Cunningham was unfortunate in just shaving the posts. United narrowly escaped going three behind when Kerr let loose from long range with his drive shaving the right-hand post. He then went close for the Rams but his shot narrowly shaved the crossbar. That the Faroes would not be easily subdued was clear early in the second half when an exquisite Borg free kick from 25 yards out shaved the junction of Scotland's bar and post. He twice went close early in the second spell shaving the framework first with a header, then a shot. They both had good efforts, the Norwegian's shot shaving the outside of a post. While they did kick a few wides in the second quarter most of them were shots that just shaved the post on the wrong side. He beat two defenders before unleashing a powerful low ball that shaved the inside of the post for a brilliant goal. Synonyms touch lightly, brush, brush against, graze, glance off, kiss noun ʃeɪvʃeɪv An act of shaving hair from the face or a part of the body. 修面，刮脸；剃毛发 you need a shave Example sentencesExamples This year, three club members are growing their hair for a head shave at the event, where they can hopefully retain the title of leading fundraising team. Having a shave and getting rid of unwanted body hair in the heat or sauna is also supposed to be relaxing for the nerves and skin. That said, there's less razor burn than from other electric razors I've used, but far more than I get from a normal wet shave. Other than that, a new shirt and decent shave wouldn't hurt. Rather than stand in awe of his suppressed and frustrated creative forces I'm more inclined to tell him, sharply, to have a shower and a shave and put some clean clothes on, for goodness sake. Olive oil is actually wonderful for your skin in general and, when used in place of shaving cream, can provide you with a much closer shave. The blade will glide over your scalp, giving you one great shave. So, seeing as how it is part of a clean-cut look men are trying to perfect, here are some tips on getting that perfect, nick-free shave. It will hold moisture on the leg longer and provide a very smooth shave. Like Brecht, he always seemed exactly three days away from a shave, a minor physiological miracle. He had started when there was no electricity in the town and in his first years carried out more shaves than hair cuts. But when the curtain came down on the final show Terry took centre stage with a sponsored shave of not just his facial hair - but his entire head. She would not take the time to scrape her scalp clean in a shave… but her hair needed to be as short as she could manage it this day. I've had my hair cut and a shave and tomorrow I'm going to grab myself a job hopefully. The consequence that interests us the most here is that you'll be able to achieve a much closer shave. Smear on a little and your razor just glides over your skin, giving you a super-close, super-silky shave. Fifteen days later, the transgenic mice needed another shave, but there were no signs of new hair growth on the control mice. He had longish brown hair and looked like he hadn't had a shave in weeks. He had to admit he felt better after a long hot shower, a shave and clean clothes. Inside the second wardrobe were more clothes - a man's clothes, and on the washstand basin were a few short light hairs from a recent shave. Origin Old English sc(e)afan 'scrape away the surface of (something) by paring', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schaven and German schaben. Rhymes behave, brave, Cave, clave, concave, crave, Dave, deprave, engrave, enslave, fave, forgave, gave, grave, knave, lave, Maeve, misbehave, misgave, nave, outbrave, pave, rave, save, shortwave, slave, stave, they've, waive, wave Definition of shave in US English: shave verbʃeɪvSHāv 1no object Cut the hair off one's face with a razor. 剃须，刮脸，修面 he washed, shaved, and had breakfast 他洗脸，刮脸，然后吃早饭。 Example sentencesExamples Sometimes, though, a simple operation can help, shaving off the bits of bone that have overgrown. Maybe I'll just shave on days when I'm going to see Marianne. He has not shaved in days, and knows something is wrong. He'd not shaved, nor, from the looks of it, brushed his hair. Maybe if those guys shaved like everyone else they'd look good. He hadn't shaved in days and his brown hair was beginning to get greasy, not having been washed. That's funnier if you know that he was shaving at the time and had no clothes on. I noticed he had shaved and cut his hair so he resembled that boyish man I thought I knew three years ago. And when she looked closer, she could tell he had shaved, and brushed his teeth and washed his hair. He can shave, drive, brush his teeth, write, dial a telephone, hold his children's hands, and feel sensations like pain and temperatures. He had managed to tame his usually ruffled hair and he had shaved. They celebrated, they played music, they danced, they crowded into movie theaters, men shaved. He even shaved, although he had to borrow my razor. As the weeks went on, Kevin started shaving before he showed up on his son's meeting nights. Of all the men, he was the only one who looked as if he'd shaved or brushed his teeth during the last week. There's a reason why he only shaves once a week - mirrors are expensive. Apparently, he hadn't shaved for a few days and his thick dark hair was in desperate need of a haircut. And they were both accompanying this dude with brown hair that looked like he hadn't shaved for days. The man shaving in his bathroom unconsciously nicks himself, while his wife goes about her mundane everyday duty of making his breakfast - perfectly. Keith was shaving, and so I grabbed a clean towel and washed my face. He hasn't shaved, his hair is unkempt and he's wearing the same clothes he left in three days ago. Synonyms cut off, snip off 1.1with object Cut the hair off (a part of the body) with a razor. 剃须，刮脸，修面 she shaved her legs 她剃了腿上的汗毛。 Example sentencesExamples The area to be tattooed is shaved (to prevent hair clogging the machine), and disinfected with an antiseptic solution. She was in a black tank top and shorts, thanking gods that she had shaved her legs the day before. When I got home and I was shaving my legs I thought I was going to faint. A ‘pet trim’ involves shaving the body and creating a pompom effect on the tail and legs. Thank the hallowed shrine of chipmunk heaven that I shaved my legs this morning. His head and legs had been shaved in readiness for the electrodes. Before the operation, part of the scrotum may need to be shaved to prevent hairs getting caught in the wound. As a woman who does not shave her body, I have encountered many different perspectives on what women are supposed to be according to society. I thanked the heaven that I had shaved my legs the previous day. Cecilia leaned over and picked up a razor and started to shave her legs while the conditioner settled into her hair. Either she was hairless or she shaved herself completely because there was not a whisper of hair. His head and legs had already been shaved and he had said good-bye to his mother in Edinburgh. Go to the link to see the photograph of the teenaged girl who is shaving her head bald so that she can stay in school. And the smaltz is shocking, we had to shave our whole bodies after the screening because we'd never have been able to wash to the cheese out of our hair. 1.2with object Cut the hair off the face or another part of the body of (someone) with a razor. 剃…上的毛 the barber shaves customers with a traditional cut-throat razor Example sentencesExamples I thought the barber might misunderstand me and shave me back to the Ching Dynasty. One Friday, Claude sat as still as an angel on a church window while I brushed his hair and shaved him. When a passer-by told him that he was offering his service to a government servant, Vairappan abruptly stopped shaving the official's beard. The hind leg of each animal to be used was shaved prior to the experiment. Me and Nancy were shaving him when he began to cry and he doesn't want explain us the problem. She took her time shaving him, making his face perfect, but from what she could see, even with the beard, he was beautifully made. The circulating nurse shaves the patient's surgical leg from 3 inches to 4 inches above the knee to 4 inches below the patella, laterally and medially. She'd been too busy trying not to cut him with the razor to notice when she'd shaved him. The team was even shaved of their hair, forcing them to dawn similar masks to hide their bald heads. Anyway, in the middle of my usual bath and hair shampoo routine, she gets out Dad's razor and shaves me! We will be shaving your most private places for this operation. If it was the man who wanted a divorce, his wife could shave him and make him her slave. A couple of years ago, the vet accidentally shaved him. Although he is a soldier, his only work so far is to tend to his captain's needs - taking off his jacket and shaving him while swallowing every harsh remark made to him by his superior. After shaving Ollie, the barber would apply talc to his cheeks and say, ‘nice-a-baby.’ The barber, a small man with a bald, white fringed, head and bright blue eyes looked up from the man he was shaving. He was thankful they hadn't shaved him bald yet, at least. The nurse said that they were shaving him when he started crying. Will you drop this charade or am I going to have to shave you bald and put you out in the cold? Besides cutting hair and shaving men, he was a dab hand at sharpening old style cut throat razors, as well as scissor sharpening. 1.3 Cut (hair) off with a razor. 剃须，刮脸，修面 professional male swimmers shave off their body hair 职业男子游泳运动员剃掉身上毛。 Example sentencesExamples He said: ‘The only way to remove the evidence is to shave all body hair.’ Your hair will not be shaved, but it may be tied back into a ponytail if it is long. He's got contacts, and he recently shaved off his brown hair. He had shaved off all of his hair when he was giving a show one night. His hair had been shaved off but his eyebrows were black, or dark brown and his eyes a deep, drowning blue. There is a young nun but her master has shaved off all her hair. By age 10, most were shaving downy body hair to gain extra speed and realizing the reward for a year of hard work was improvement measured in tenths of a second. It is a good idea to have a razor available to shave off any hair that may prevent the Band-Aid from sticking. However, I opted to shave all of my hair on this occasion. So he could better see his body, he shaved the hair from his chest. Papa had to shave his thick auburn hair because of a case of head lice. Another favourite jape is to get the bridegroom blind drunk and then shave off all his hair, including his eyebrows and where the sun does not shine. He woke the next morning with a hangover like a gunshot wound and the discovery that his hair and eyebrows had been shaved off. Pink begins his transformation into a fascist leader in a painful scene of shaving his body hair. The ad commercial was to be shot in just over a day and I was asked to shave off my hair. Now, their hair and beards will be shaved for hygienic purposes. He had black hair that was shaved down into a short cut. The double picked up its razor and began to shave off the neglected facial hair. A small amount of hair may be shaved from your groin or arm where the catheter is inserted. Also round about this time fleas and body lice were rampant and so most people shaved their body hair. 2with object Cut (a thin slice or slices) from the surface of something. 把…切刮出薄片 scrape a large sharp knife across the surface, shaving off rolls of very fine chocolate 用一把锋利大刀刮表面，削出细薄的巧克力卷。 Example sentencesExamples The secret is to shave lemon rind into the batter, but not too much. Then he stands up and proceeds to shave very thin slices of cheese from a large wheel of Gouda. They can tell when the lid of a cookie jar has been disturbed and notice when a quarter inch slice has been shaved off a chocolate cake. This year, for example, the Brussels sprouts might be shaved and sautéed with pine nuts and bacon. He shaved ultrathin slices from the samples and studied them under a light microscope. Grate or shave the chocolate so that the pieces are small and thin enough to melt quickly. This sort of abuse will break a too brittle blade or loosen a flimsy blade pivot, but it stood up to this challenge before shaving off more ribbons of paper as cleanly as it had at the beginning. It also melts well; and is eaten as a table cheese - thin slivers shaved off it make a good appetizer. Truffles can be shaved and put into a sauce, under the skin of roasting chicken, or into a plate of eggs. First he was the guy at the window of the kebab shop shaving off the slivers of meat, then he was the local sandwich-maker and now he appears to be selling all manner of household wares smaller than a toaster. Like a sculptor shaving off bits of marble to shape a statue, organisms use cell death to shape developing organs, including the brain. With the beveled side of the blade against the stone, rub the sharp edge of the blade toward the stone in a curved motion, as if you were trying to shave off a thin slice from the stone. They can be used in any way celeriac is served and are particularly good with a simple oil-and-vinegar dressing into which a little onion has been shaved. This was done by shaving off part of one of the sides, and then shaving off some of the thinnest edge to make a flat plank. The cross section of the cervical tissue containing both the epithelium and stroma was exposed by shaving off layers of the embedding medium and tissue using a cryostat. By binding trees together, after shaving off some bark, the trees grow together from the point where they fuse. Get into the habit of shaving thin slices off a piece of cheese rather than cutting a large chunk. Some lesions can be shaved down to the level of the surrounding skin, either using a surgical blade or electro-surgery, which uses an alternating current to destroy skin tissue. The method by which it was proposed that the requisite reduction in weight would be effected was by shaving off the keel as cast the appropriate weight of lead. Synonyms plane off, pare off, shear off, whittle off, scrape off grate, shred 2.1 Remove (a small amount) from something. 除去，去掉（很少的量） she shaved 0.5 seconds off the record 她把英国少年记录缩短了0.5秒。 Example sentencesExamples It is expected to generate up to a fifth of electricity used on campus, shaving some £3,000 off fuel bills each year. By shaving off 5 degrees on each side of this orb, one notices another interesting phenomenon emerging. All of the courses are modeled in the same manner, shaving off a polygon here and there to save on system resources. About €25 billion was shaved from its market value last year. This tax benefit, acting essentially as a tax rebate, shaved off massive amounts of money from the tech company's tax bills. Even shaving just a small slice away from Democrats could prove pivotal to cementing the GOP's status as the majority party. Half of the local authority buildings are leased, and the new building would shave a significant amount off its spending on rent. In the first case, you won't know the true dimensions, so you will build conservatively, shaving off inches to try to make sure that the bookcase will fit. Then our time margins were further shaved by an additional hour waiting for the new replacement part for the copilot's instrument power generator. Will better skis, more expensive wax or an extra helping of spaghetti help me shave a few minutes off last year's time? The recession shaved another $929 billion from the surplus projection, or about one-quarter of the loss. Opt for pumpkin pie instead of pecan and shave 200 calories off your meal. If he'd just shave 20 minutes off his movies, he'd have a joyous, more focused audience walking out of the theatre. Further work now underway is expected to shave another 25 percent of the bulk and mass. This shaves an impressive 4 oz of weight from the bantamweight pistol, which only tips the scales at 24 oz empty, with the mag. Every little bit that's shaved or drilled off the pyramid is irreplaceable, and it represents an erosion of something that should be preserved. Some £10,000 will be shaved from the tourism marketing budget. These engines are around 135 lb and some weight could be shaved off. For what it comes down to is shaving half an hour from the show. It is paid not only for its participation in the program, but also based on the amount of power it shaves from its utility demand. Synonyms take off, remove from, lop off, cut off 2.2 Reduce by a small amount. 少量削减 they shaved profit margins 他们削减了利润幅度。 Example sentencesExamples Again and again, he is shaving away any decent territory for a Tory revival. Why not carry out the entire drug discovery to drug manufacturing process out in the spirit of helping others, and shave costs by shaving profits? Because she works a busy sales and marketing job, shaving off a few dollars here and there is not a priority. Market forces would have led carriers to tighten security and shave waiting time to lure back passengers. Synonyms reduce, cut, bring down, lessen, decrease, make smaller, prune, pare down, shrink, slim down, whittle down 3with object Pass or send something close to (something else), missing it narrowly. 掠过；擦过 Scott shaved the post in the 29th minute 斯科特在29分钟时踢出的球擦门柱而过。 Example sentencesExamples He then went close for the Rams but his shot narrowly shaved the crossbar. Villa were unlucky after only five minutes when Brian Kenny shot just shaved the post. Kicking into the teeth of a severe wind Ryan Cunningham was unfortunate in just shaving the posts. United narrowly escaped going three behind when Kerr let loose from long range with his drive shaving the right-hand post. On the hour mark Moreau picked out Fernandez in the box and he looked sure to score, but the outcome was another near miss, his shot shaving the post. The first warning sign this time came when Henry fed a square pass to Dennis Bergkamp, whose drive from 20 yards shaved a post. That the Faroes would not be easily subdued was clear early in the second half when an exquisite Borg free kick from 25 yards out shaved the junction of Scotland's bar and post. A few of our kicks shaved the post and in the end there were only two points in it. He shaved the right hand post with his attempted conversion. Shane Glover went close for Harps as did Patrick Dowling when his volley shaved the upright. He went tantalisingly close to levelling the game when two long range penalties shaved the outside of the posts. Chris Ince had a goal disallowed and Tim Downie shaved a post after a fine run, while Chris Burn pulled off several fine stops in the York goal. He twice went close early in the second spell shaving the framework first with a header, then a shot. He beat two defenders before unleashing a powerful low ball that shaved the inside of the post for a brilliant goal. He firstly saw his shot gathered by Stuart Addis and then shaved the post with a long range effort from the right wing. They both had good efforts, the Norwegian's shot shaving the outside of a post. The ball shaved the wrong side of the post and sent the Town supporters delirious. McLaren's skimming drive shaved the outside of the post whilst Templeman finally showed his worth with a rising drive McGovern was only too happy to help over the bar. McLaren was often the instigator, and just after the hour mark, he danced to the byline and delivered a cross which caused a moment of panic for Nick Colgan, as it shaved his far post. While they did kick a few wides in the second quarter most of them were shots that just shaved the post on the wrong side. Synonyms touch lightly, brush, brush against, graze, glance off, kiss nounʃeɪvSHāv An act of shaving hair from the face or a part of the body. 修面，刮脸；剃毛发 you need a shave Example sentencesExamples He had to admit he felt better after a long hot shower, a shave and clean clothes. She would not take the time to scrape her scalp clean in a shave… but her hair needed to be as short as she could manage it this day. It will hold moisture on the leg longer and provide a very smooth shave. I've had my hair cut and a shave and tomorrow I'm going to grab myself a job hopefully. Rather than stand in awe of his suppressed and frustrated creative forces I'm more inclined to tell him, sharply, to have a shower and a shave and put some clean clothes on, for goodness sake. The blade will glide over your scalp, giving you one great shave. Olive oil is actually wonderful for your skin in general and, when used in place of shaving cream, can provide you with a much closer shave. Like Brecht, he always seemed exactly three days away from a shave, a minor physiological miracle. This year, three club members are growing their hair for a head shave at the event, where they can hopefully retain the title of leading fundraising team. So, seeing as how it is part of a clean-cut look men are trying to perfect, here are some tips on getting that perfect, nick-free shave. That said, there's less razor burn than from other electric razors I've used, but far more than I get from a normal wet shave. He had started when there was no electricity in the town and in his first years carried out more shaves than hair cuts. The consequence that interests us the most here is that you'll be able to achieve a much closer shave. He had longish brown hair and looked like he hadn't had a shave in weeks. Fifteen days later, the transgenic mice needed another shave, but there were no signs of new hair growth on the control mice. Other than that, a new shirt and decent shave wouldn't hurt. Having a shave and getting rid of unwanted body hair in the heat or sauna is also supposed to be relaxing for the nerves and skin. Inside the second wardrobe were more clothes - a man's clothes, and on the washstand basin were a few short light hairs from a recent shave. But when the curtain came down on the final show Terry took centre stage with a sponsored shave of not just his facial hair - but his entire head. Smear on a little and your razor just glides over your skin, giving you a super-close, super-silky shave. Origin Old English sc(e)afan ‘scrape away the surface of (something) by paring’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schaven and German schaben.
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