Synonyms of the word

shave

• v. (transitive) To make bald by using a tool such as a razor or pair of electric clippers to cut the hair…
• v. (transitive) To cut anything in this fashion.
• v. (intransitive) To remove hair from one's face by this means.
• v. (transitive) To cut finely, as with slices of meat.
• v. To skim along or near the surface of; to pass close to, or touch lightly, in passing.
• v. (archaic, transitive) To be hard and severe in a bargain with; to practice extortion on; to cheat.
• v. (US, slang, dated, transitive) To buy (a note) at a discount greater than the legal rate of interest,…
• n. An instance of shaving.
• n. A thin slice; a shaving.
• n. (US, slang, dated) An exorbitant discount on a note.
• n. (US, slang, dated) A premium paid for an extension of the time of delivery or payment, or for the right…
• n. A hand tool consisting of a sharp blade with a handle at each end; a spokeshave.

carve

• v. (archaic) To cut.
• v. To cut meat in order to serve it.
• v. To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished…
• v. (snowboarding) To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard…
• v. (figuratively) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
• v. To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
• n. (obsolete) A carucate.

crease

• n. A line or mark made by folding or doubling any pliable substance; hence, a similar mark, however produced.
• n. (cricket) One of the white lines drawn on the pitch to show different areas of play; especially the popping…
• n. (lacrosse) The circle around the goal, where no offensive players can go.
• n. (ice hockey, handball) The goal crease; an area in front of each goal.
• v. (transitive) To make a crease in; to wrinkle.
• v. (transitive) To lightly bloody; to graze.
• n. Archaic form of kris.

cut

• adj. (participial adjective) Having been cut.
• adj. Reduced.
• adj. Omitted from a literary or musical work.
• adj. (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
• adj. (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
• adj. (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among…
• adj. (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
• adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Emotionally hurt.
• adj. Eliminated from consideration during a recruitment drive.
• adj. Removed from a team roster.
• adj. (New Zealand) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
• n. An opening resulting from cutting.
• n. The act of cutting.
• n. The result of cutting.
• n. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
• n. (specifically) An artificial navigation as distingished from a navigable river.
• n. A share or portion.
• n. (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
• n. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the…
• n. (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also,…
• n. (golf) In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained…
• n. (theater) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play.
• n. (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
• n. The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
• n. The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
• n. A slab, especially of meat.
• n. (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
• n. A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
• n. A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio…
• n. (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits…
• n. A haircut.
• n. (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
• n. A string of railway cars coupled together.
• n. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
• n. (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
• n. (slang, dated) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
• n. A skein of yarn.
• v. (heading, transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
• v. (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
• v. (transitive, heading, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
• v. (intransitive, film, audio, usually as imperative) To cease recording activities.
• v. (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
• v. (transitive, computing) To remove and place in memory for later use.
• v. (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
• v. (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball…
• v. (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
• v. (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
• v. (transitive, slang) To write.
• v. (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
• v. (transitive) To exhibit (a quality).
• v. (transitive) To stop or disengage.
• v. (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball,…

depilation

• n. Act of pulling out or removing the hair; unhairing; hair removal.
• n. Removal of hair, wool or bristles from the body.

epilation

• n. The loss of hair.
• n. The removal of hair from human or animal skin; depilation.

graze

• n. The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing.
• n. A light abrasion; a slight scratch.
• v. (transitive) To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture); to browse.
• v. (transitive) To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing.
• v. (transitive) To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing.
• v. (transitive) To cause a slight wound to; to scratch.
• v. (intransitive) To yield grass for grazing.

groom

• n. A man who is about to become or has recently become part of a married couple. Short form of bridegroom.
• n. A person who cares for horses.
• n. One of several officers of the English royal household, chiefly in the lord chamberlain's department.
• n. A brushing or cleaning, as of a dog or horse.
• v. To attend to one's appearance and clothing.
• v. To care for horses or other animals by brushing and cleaning them.
• v. To prepare someone for election or appointment.
• v. To prepare a ski slope for skiers.
• v. (transitive) To attempt to gain the trust of somebody, especially a minor, with the intention of subjecting…

neaten

• v. To make neat; arrange in an orderly, tidy way; to tidy.

plane

• adj. Of a surface: flat or level.
• n. A level or flat surface.
• n. (geometry) A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane).
• n. A level of existence or development. (eg, astral plane).
• n. A roughly flat, thin, often moveable structure used to create lateral force by the flow of air or water…
• n. (computing, Unicode) Any of a number of designated ranges of sequential code points.
• n. (anatomy) An imaginary plane which divides the body into two portions.
• n. (countable) A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface.
• v. (transitive) To smooth (wood) with a plane.
• n. An airplane; an aeroplane.
• v. (nautical) To move in a way that lifts the bow of a boat out of the water.
• v. To glide or soar.
• n. (countable) A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus.
• n. (Northern UK) A sycamore.

rake

• n. A garden tool with a row of pointed teeth fixed to a long handle, used for collecting grass or debris,…
• n. (Ireland, slang) A lot, plenty.
• n. (rail transport) A set of coupled rail vehicles, normally coaches or wagons.
• n. (cellular automata) A puffer that emits a stream of spaceships rather than a trail of debris.
• n. The scaled commission fee taken by a cardroom operating a poker game.
• n. A toothed machine drawn by a horse, used for collecting hay or grain; a horserake.
• n. (mining) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so.
• v. To use a rake on (leaves, debris, soil, a lawn, etc) in order to loosen, gather together, or remove debris…
• v. To search thoroughly.
• v. To spray with gunfire.
• v. To claw at; to scratch.
• v. To gather, especially quickly (often as rake in).
• v. (intransitive) To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along.
• n. Slope, divergence from the horizontal or perpendicular.
• n. (geology) The direction of slip during fault movement. The rake is measured within the fault plane.
• n. (roofing) The sloped edge of a roof at or adjacent to the first or last rafter.
• v. (intransitive) To proceed rapidly; to move swiftly.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To guide; to direct.
• v. (intransitive) To incline from a perpendicular direction.
• n. A man habituated to immoral conduct.
• v. (Britain, dialect, dated) To walk about; to gad or ramble idly.
• v. (Britain, dialect, dated) To act the rake; to lead a dissolute, debauched life.
• n. (provincial, Northern England) A course; direction; stretch.
• n. (provincial, Northern England, for animals) A range, stray.
• v. (provincial, Northern England) To run or rove.

reduce

• v. (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish,…
• v. (intransitive) To lose weight.
• v. (transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
• v. (transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
• v. (transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition.
• v. (transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of food by boiling much of its water off.
• v. (transitive, chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
• v. (transitive, metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
• v. (transitive, mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
• v. (transitive, logic) To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form.
• v. (transitive, law) To convert to written form (Usage note: this verb almost always take the phrase "to…
• v. (transitive, medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
• v. (transitive, military) To reform a line or column from (a square).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To translate (a book, document, etc.).

shaving

• n. (countable) A thin, shaved off slice of wood, metal, or other material.
• n. (uncountable) The action of having a shave.
• v. present participle of shave.

trim

• v. (transitive) To reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess; e.g. 'trim a hedge', 'trim a beard'…
• v. (transitive) To decorate or adorn; especially of a Christmas tree.
• v. (transitive, aviation, of an aircraft) To adjust pitch using trim tabs.
• v. (transitive, nautical, of a vessel) To modify the angle relative to the water by shifting cargo or ballast;…
• v. (transitive, nautical, of a vessel's sails) To modify the angle (of the sails) relative to the wind, especially…
• v. (dated) To balance; to fluctuate between parties, so as to appear to favour each.
• v. (transitive) To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.
• v. (transitive, carpentry, of timber) To dress; to make smooth.
• v. (transitive, dated) To rebuke; to reprove; also, to beat.
• n. (uncountable) Decoration; especially, decoration placed along edges or borders.
• n. (countable) A haircut, especially a moderate one to touch up an existing style.
• n. Dress; gear; ornaments.
• n. (countable) The manner in which something is equipped or adorned; order; disposition.
• n. (uncountable, slang, mildly vulgar) Sexual intercourse.
• n. (nautical) The fore-and-aft angle of the vessel to the water, with reference to the cargo and ballast;…
• n. (nautical) The arrangement of the sails with reference to the wind.
• adj. Physically fit.
• adj. Slender, lean.
• adj. Neat or smart in appearance.
• adv. (nautical) In good order, properly managed or maintained.
• adv. (nautical) With sails well trimmed.