Shave

//ʃeɪv//

Synonyms for "shave" (242 found)

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Closest matches (49)

plane abate abbreviate abrade abridge abscind abstract amputate annihilate ban bar bate beat beat down beguile beguile of bilk bob boil down borrow

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break brush brush by bunco burn capsulize caress cheapen cheat chisel chouse chouse out of clip close shave cog cog the dice come in contact compress con condense contact contract cozen crib crop cull curtail

Verb(2 words)

chef ching

Related words (121)

impair impinge isolate jew down kiss knock off lay leach lend lessen level lop lour lower lubricate mark down mow mulct mutilate narrow escape

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Verb(8 words)

jook juice knock off plane shank shiv stab trim

Noun(1 words)

shaving

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

9 relation types

More general

17 entries

bring down carve crease cut cut back cut down cut up depilation epilation graze groom neaten rake reduce trim trim back

Showing 16 of 17 words.

Synonyms

1 entries

plane

causes

1 entries

bald

coordinate

3 entries

fleece shear trim

derived

39 entries

God Shave the Queen aftershave close shave green shave inshave midshave near shave overshave permanent shave point-shave preshave reshave shave and a haircut shave brush shave cream

Showing 16 of 39 words.

has context

2 entries

slang us

is a

1 entries

depilation

manner of

5 entries

carve cut graze groom reduce

related to

20 entries

bald blade contract cut delivery discount exorbitant extension face hair hand note payment premium shaving slice

Showing 16 of 20 words.

Translations

246 translations across 104 languages.

Albanian

1 entries

rruaj verb (to remove hair from)

Ancient Greek

2 entries

ξυρέομαι verb (to remove hair from one's face)
ξυρέω verb (to remove hair from)

Arabic

4 entries

حَلْقة noun (an instance of shaving)
حلق verb (to remove hair from)
حَلَق verb (to remove hair from)
حَلَقَ verb (to remove hair from)

Armenian

4 entries

թրաշել verb (to remove hair from)
թրաշվել verb (to remove hair from one's face)
խուզել verb (to remove hair from)
սափրել verb (to remove hair from)

Aromanian

1 entries

sursescu verb (to remove hair from)

Assamese

1 entries

খুৰা verb (to remove hair from)

Asturian

2 entries

afaitar verb (to remove hair from)
afeitar verb (to remove hair from)

Azerbaijani

2 entries

qırxmaq verb (to remove hair from)
üzünü qırxmaq verb (to remove hair from one's face)

Bangi

1 entries

kolola verb (to remove hair from)

Bashkir

2 entries

ҡырыныу verb (to remove hair from one's face)
ҡырыу verb (to remove hair from)

Belarusian

4 entries

бры́цца verb (to remove hair from one's face)
брыць verb (to remove hair from)
галі́цца verb (to remove hair from one's face)
галі́ць verb (to remove hair from)

Bulgarian

4 entries

бръснене noun (an instance of shaving)
бръ́сна verb (to remove hair from)
бръсна се verb (to remove hair from one's face)
режа на тънко verb (to slice thin)

Burmese

2 entries

တုံး verb (to remove hair from)
ရိတ် verb (to remove hair from)

Catalan

4 entries

afaitar verb (to remove hair from)
afaitar-se verb (to remove hair from one's face)
rapar verb (to remove hair from)
rasurar verb (to remove hair from)

Central Kurdish

1 entries

تەراش noun (an instance of shaving)

Chechen

1 entries

даша verb (to remove hair from one's face)

Chinese Cantonese

2 entries

剃 verb (to remove hair from)
剃鬚 /剃须 verb (to remove hair from one's face)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

刮 verb (to remove hair from)
刮臉 /刮脸 verb (to remove hair from one's face)
刮鬍子 /刮胡子 verb (to remove hair from one's face)
剃 verb (to remove hair from)

Cornish

1 entries

divarva verb (to remove hair from one's face)

Czech

4 entries

holit verb (to remove hair from)
holit se verb (to remove hair from one's face)
oholit verb (to remove hair from)
oholit se verb (to remove hair from one's face)

Danish

4 entries

barbering noun (an instance of shaving)
barbere verb (to remove hair from)
barbere sig verb (to remove hair from one's face)
rage verb (to remove hair from)

Dutch

2 entries

scheren verb (to remove hair from)
zich scheren verb (to remove hair from one's face)

Elfdalian

1 entries

råkå verb (to remove hair from)

Esperanto

1 entries

razi verb (to remove hair from)

Estonian

1 entries

raseerima verb (to remove hair from)

Evenki

1 entries

хус verb (to remove hair from)

Faroese

2 entries

raka verb (to remove hair from)
raka sig verb (to remove hair from one's face)

Finnish

4 entries

parranajo noun (an instance of shaving)
ajaa verb (to remove hair from)
ajaa parta verb (to remove hair from one's face)
ajaa partansa verb (to remove hair from one's face)

French

4 entries

rasage noun (an instance of shaving)
raser verb (to remove hair from)
se raser verb (to remove hair from)
se raser verb (to remove hair from one's face)

Galician

4 entries

afeitado noun (an instance of shaving)
afeitar verb (to remove hair from)
afeitar verb (to remove hair from one's face)
barbear verb (to remove hair from one's face)

Georgian

2 entries

პარსვა verb (to remove hair from)
წვერის პარსვა verb (to remove hair from one's face)

German

3 entries

Rasur noun (an instance of shaving)
rasieren verb (to remove hair from)
sich rasieren verb (to remove hair from one's face)

Greek

3 entries

ξύρισμα noun (an instance of shaving)
ξυρίζομαι verb (to remove hair from one's face)
ξυρίζω verb (to remove hair from)

Greenlandic

2 entries

unngiarpoq verb (to remove hair from)
unngiarpoq verb (to remove hair from one's face)

Haitian Creole

1 entries

fè bab verb (to remove hair from one's face)

Hawaiian

2 entries

kahi verb (to remove hair from)
kōhi verb (to slice thin)

Hebrew

2 entries

גילח verb (to remove hair from)
התגלח verb (to remove hair from one's face)

Hindi

1 entries

दाढ़ी बनाना verb (to remove hair from)

Hungarian

2 entries

borotvál verb (to remove hair from)
borotválkozik verb (to remove hair from one's face)

Icelandic

2 entries

raka verb (to remove hair from)
raka sig verb (to remove hair from one's face)

Indonesian

2 entries

bercukur verb (to remove hair from one's face)
cukur verb (to remove hair from)

Irish

2 entries

bearr verb (to remove hair from)
tú féin a bhearradh verb (to remove hair from one's face)

Italian

4 entries

farsi la barba verb (to remove hair from one's face)
radere verb (to remove hair from)
radersi verb (to remove hair from one's face)
rasare verb (to remove hair from)

Japanese

3 entries

そる verb (to remove hair from)
ひげをそる verb (to remove hair from one's face)
削る verb (to slice thin)

Javanese

1 entries

nyukur verb (to remove hair from)

Kazakh

2 entries

қыру verb (to remove hair from)
қырқу verb (to remove hair from)

Khmer

1 entries

កោរ verb (to remove hair from)

Korean

3 entries

꺾다 verb (to remove hair from)
면도하다 verb (to remove hair from)
면도하다 verb (to remove hair from one's face)

Lao

4 entries

ກັນ verb (to remove hair from)
ປົງຜົມ verb (to remove hair from)
ແຖ verb (to remove hair from)
ແຖຜົມ verb (to remove hair from)

Latgalian

2 entries

skust verb (to remove hair from)
škiut verb (to remove hair from)

Latin

4 entries

abrādō verb (to remove hair from)
rādō verb (to remove hair from)
rādō verb (to remove hair from one's face)
tondeō verb (to remove hair from)

Latvian

2 entries

skūt verb (to remove hair from)
skūt verb (to remove hair from one's face)

Lingala

1 entries

kolola verb (to remove hair from)

Lithuanian

1 entries

skusti verb (to remove hair from)

Luxembourgish

1 entries

raséieren verb (to remove hair from)

Macedonian

3 entries

бричење noun (an instance of shaving)
бричи verb (to remove hair from)
ре́же verb (to slice thin)

Malay

3 entries

bercukur verb (to remove hair from)
cukur verb (to remove hair from)
mencukur verb (to remove hair from)

Malayalam

1 entries

വടിക്കുക verb (to remove hair from)

Manchu

1 entries

ᡶᡠᠰᡳᠮᠪᡳ verb (to remove hair from)

Manx

1 entries

baarey verb (to remove hair from one's face)

Maore Comorian

1 entries

umea verb (to remove hair from)

Mongolian

2 entries

сахлаа хусах verb (to remove hair from one's face)
хусах verb (to remove hair from)

Māori

3 entries

heu verb (to remove hair from)
waru verb (to remove hair from)
whakatiwha verb (to remove hair from)

Nahuatl

1 entries

xima verb (to remove hair from)

Nanai

1 entries

поси verb (to remove hair from)

Norman

1 entries

râser verb (to remove hair from)

Northern Sami

2 entries

ráhket verb (to remove hair from)
ráhput verb (to remove hair from)

Norwegian Bokmål

2 entries

barbere verb (to remove hair from)
rake verb (to remove hair from)

Norwegian Nynorsk

2 entries

barbera verb (to remove hair from)
raka verb (to remove hair from)

Occitan

1 entries

rasar verb (to remove hair from)

Old English

2 entries

sċieran verb (to remove hair from)
sċieran verb (to remove hair from one's face)

Oromo

1 entries

haaduu verb (to remove hair from)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries

قازیمق verb (to remove hair from)

Persian

1 entries

تراشیدن verb (to remove hair from)

Polabian

2 entries

puckăt verb (to remove hair from)
puckăt verb (to remove hair from one's face)

Polish

4 entries

golenie noun (an instance of shaving)
golić verb (to remove hair from)
golić się verb (to remove hair from one's face)
ogolić verb (to remove hair from)

Portuguese

4 entries

barbear noun (an instance of shaving)
barbear verb (to remove hair from)
barbear-se verb (to remove hair from one's face)
fazer a barba verb (to remove hair from one's face)

Rarotongan

1 entries

varu verb (to remove hair from)

Romanian

4 entries

bărbieri verb (to remove hair from)
bărbieri verb (to remove hair from one's face)
felia verb (to slice thin)
rade verb (to remove hair from)

Romansch

1 entries

far la barba verb (to remove hair from)

Russian

4 entries

бритьё noun (an instance of shaving)
бри́ться verb (to remove hair from one's face)
брить verb (to remove hair from)
вы́скоблить verb (to remove hair from)

Salar

1 entries

yiligüsi verb (to remove hair from)

Samoan

1 entries

sele verb (to remove hair from)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries

beàrr verb (to remove hair from)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries

brȉjati verb (to remove hair from)
бри̏јати verb (to remove hair from)

Sidamo

1 entries

meeda verb (to remove hair from)

Slovak

4 entries

holiť verb (to remove hair from)
holiť sa verb (to remove hair from one's face)
oholiť verb (to remove hair from)
oholiť sa verb (to remove hair from one's face)

Slovene

2 entries

briti verb (to remove hair from)
obriti verb (to remove hair from)

Spanish

4 entries

afeitado noun (an instance of shaving)
afeitar verb (to remove hair from)
afeitarse verb (to remove hair from one's face)
lonchear verb (to slice thin)

Swedish

3 entries

rakning noun (an instance of shaving)
raka verb (to remove hair from)
raka sig verb (to remove hair from one's face)

Tajik

1 entries

тарошидан verb (to remove hair from)

Telugu

1 entries

గొరుగు verb (to remove hair from)

Thai

2 entries

โกน verb (to remove hair from)
โกนหนวด verb (to remove hair from one's face)

Tibetan

1 entries

བཞར verb (to remove hair from)

Tongan

1 entries

tele verb (to remove hair from)

Turkish

3 entries

tıraş noun (an instance of shaving)
tıraş etmek verb (to remove hair from one's face)
tıraş olmak verb (to remove hair from)

Turkmen

1 entries

tyraş bolmak verb (to remove hair from)

Ukrainian

4 entries

бри́ти verb (to remove hair from)
бри́тися verb (to remove hair from one's face)
голи́ти verb (to remove hair from)
голи́тися verb (to remove hair from one's face)

Upper Sorbian

2 entries

truhać verb (to remove hair from)
wottruhać verb (to remove hair from)

Uzbek

2 entries

qirmoq verb (to remove hair from)
tarashlamoq verb (to remove hair from)

Vietnamese

3 entries

cạo verb (to remove hair from)
cạo mặt verb (to remove hair from one's face)
cạo râu verb (to remove hair from one's face)

Welsh

4 entries

eillio verb (to remove hair from)
eillio verb (to remove hair from one's face)
siafio verb (to remove hair from)
siafio verb (to remove hair from one's face)

Yiddish

2 entries

גאָלן verb (to remove hair from)
גאָלן זיך verb (to remove hair from one's face)

Zazaki

2 entries

taşen noun (an instance of shaving)
taşen verb (to remove hair from one's face)

Sample sentences

25 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

A shave, please.

Source: tatoeba (20758)

Please shave my beard.

Source: tatoeba (34802)

It is pleasant to shave off my beard.

Source: tatoeba (34804)

Do you also want a shave?

Source: tatoeba (34806)

Showing 4 of 25 available sentences.

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Shave

Synonyms for "shave" (242 found)

Closest matches (49)

Strong matches (72)

Related words (121)

Related word relations

More general

Synonyms

causes

coordinate

derived

has context

is a

manner of

related to

Translations

Albanian

Ancient Greek

Arabic

Armenian

Aromanian

Assamese

Asturian

Azerbaijani

Bangi

Bashkir

Belarusian

Bulgarian

Burmese

Catalan

Central Kurdish

Chechen

Chinese Cantonese

Chinese Mandarin

Cornish

Czech

Danish

Dutch

Elfdalian

Esperanto

Estonian

Evenki

Faroese

Finnish

French

Galician

Georgian

German

Greek

Greenlandic

Haitian Creole

Hawaiian

Hebrew

Hindi

Hungarian

Icelandic

Indonesian

Irish

Italian

Japanese

Javanese

Kazakh

Khmer

Korean

Lao

Latgalian

Latin

Latvian

Lingala

Lithuanian

Luxembourgish

Macedonian

Malay

Malayalam

Manchu

Manx

Maore Comorian

Mongolian

Māori

Nahuatl