shaving
noun
[ ˈʃeɪvɪŋ ]
• a thin strip cut off a surface.
• "she brushed wood shavings from her knees"
• the action of shaving.
• "shaving foam"
shave
verb
• (of a man) cut the hair off the face with a razor.
• "he washed, shaved, and had breakfast"
• cut (a thin slice or slices) from the surface of something.
• "scrape a large sharp knife across the surface, shaving off rolls of very fine chocolate"
Similar:
plane off,
pare off,
shear off,
whittle off,
scrape off,
grate,
shred,
• pass or send something close to (something else), missing it narrowly.
• "Scott shaved the post in the 29th minute"
Similar:
touch lightly,
brush,
brush against,
graze,
glance off,
kiss,
Origin:
Old English sc(e)afan ‘scrape away the surface of (something) by paring’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schaven and German schaben .
