Word Meanings - SHAVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

obs. p. p. of Shave. Chaucer. His beard was shave as nigh as ever he can. Chaucer.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SHAVE)

• Crop
• reap
• reduce
• shave
• shorten
• curtail
• Graze
• Shave
• scrape
• skim
• abrade
• shear

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SHAVE)

• Lubricate
• polish
• levigate
• dig
• indent
• wound

Related words: (words related to SHAVE)

• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• SHEAR
  To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4. (more info) shave, AS. sceran, scieran, scyran; akin to D. & G. scheren, Icel. 1. To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear
• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• REDUCE
  To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from
• SHEARS
  The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table or slide rest is secured; as, the shears of a lathe or planer. See Illust. under Lathe. Rotary shears. See under Rotary. (more info) 1. A cutting instrument. Specifically: An instrument consisting
• INDENTMENT
  Indenture.
• CURTAILER
  One who curtails.
• POLISHED
  Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
• SHEARBILL
  The black skimmer. See Skimmer.
• SHEARN
  Dung; excrement. Holland.
• INDENTEDLY
  With indentations.
• INDENTURE
  A mutual agreement in writing between two or more parties, whereof each party has usually a counterpart or duplicate; sometimes in the pl., a short form for indentures of apprenticeship, the contract by which a youth is bound apprentice to a master.
• INDENTED
  Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated; as, an indented border or ordinary. 4. Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured; as, an indented servant. (more info) 1. Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like
• INDENTION
  See 4
• POLISHABLE
  Capable of being polished.
• SHEARWATER
  Any one of numerous species of long-winged oceanic birds of the genus Puffinus and related genera. They are allied to the petrels, but are larger. The Manx shearwater , the dusky shearwater , and the greater shearwater , are well-known species
• WOUNDY
  Excessive. Such a world of holidays, that 't a woundy hindrance to a poor man that lives by his labor. L'Estrange.
• CURTAIL
  To cut off the end or tail, or any part, of; to shorten; to abridge; to diminish; to reduce. I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion. Shak. Our incomes have been curtailed; his salary has been doubled. Macualay.
• WOUNDLESS
  Free from wound or hurt; exempt from being wounded; invulnerable. "Knights whose woundless armor rusts." Spenser. may miss our name, And hit the woundless air. Shak.
• SHEARMAN
  One whose occupation is to shear cloth.
• REPOLISH
  To polish again.
• DISHEARTENMENT
  Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• DEPOLISHING
  The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelian. Knight.
• 'SWOUNDS
  An exclamation contracted from God's wounds; -- used as an oath. Shak.
• DRAWSHAVE
  See KNIFE
• SWOUND
  See LONGFELLOW