Synonyms for shaving
ˈʃeɪ vɪŋshav·ing

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1. shave, shavingnoun

   the act of removing hair with a razor

   Synonyms:
   paring, shave, sliver, grazing, skimming

2. paring, sliver, shavingnoun

   a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something

   Synonyms:
   sliver, shave, paring, grazing, splinter, skimming

3. grazing, shaving, skimmingnoun

   the act of brushing against while passing

   Synonyms:
   paring, graze, skimming, shave, grazing, skim, sliver

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1. • Depilation
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1. List of paraphrases for "shaving":

   shave, ebp

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How to use shaving in a sentence?

1. David Letterman:

   I used to say, every day, ‘I am so sick and tired of shaving.’ … And I just thought, the first thing I will do when I am not on TV is stop shaving. And everybody hates it. My wife hates it. My son hates it. But it’s interesting. I’ve kind of developed a real creepy look with it that I’m sort of enjoying. And I can tell that people are off-put by it. And the more people implore me to shave, the stronger my resolve is to not shave.

2. Israeli Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon:

   There is no danger to the banks' stability. They profit when they are sleeping and shaving, all the time we are scared the banks will collapse but in the meantime, citizens collapse.

3. Henry Ford:

   Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

4. Gennadiy Goldberg:

   This brings considerable downside risks to GDP revisions, likely shaving 0.3 percentage point.

5. Tom Torres:

   My life is all screwed up, that's the reason I was shaving on the train.