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Word entry · 5 letters

shave

Best crossword clue

"Use a razor"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ʃeɪv/Part of speech verb, nounSorted aehsvStarts with SEnds with E1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. remove body hair with a razor

Word origin

Inherited from Middle English shaven, schaven, from Old English sċafan (“to shave, scrape, shred, polish”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaban, from Proto-Germanic *skabaną (“to scrape”), from Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ- (“to cut, split, form, carve”).

Used in a sentence

  • The Lab'rer vvith the bending Scythe is ſeen / Shaving the Surface of the vvaving Green; […]
  • I had little time to shave this morning.
  • Now shaves with level wing the deep.

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