Definition for Shaving:

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

Synonyms for Shaving:

• n.

  •a small quantity (noun)
  • Bitting.
  •flake (noun)
  • fleck,
  • dandruff.
  •grazing (noun)
  • grazing.
  •shave (noun)
  • shave.
  •shaving (noun)
  • skimming.
  •smidgen (noun)
  • small bits,
  • small quantities,
  • little bits,
  • wee bits.

• v.

  •cheapening (verb)
  • belittling,
  • debasing,
  • marking down,
  • slashing,
  • degrading,
  • devaluing,
  • devaluating,
  • Cheapening.
  •diminishing (verb)
  • Cropping,
  • Bobbing,
  • lessening,
  • Weeding,
  • paring,
  • tapering,
  • decreasing,
  • downgrading,
  • clipping,
  • minimizing,
  • shearing,
  • Abbreviating,
  • Curtailing,
  • eroding,
  • contracting,
  • Culling,
  • condensing,
  • compressing,
  • pruning,
  • Depleting,
  • dwindling,
  • trimming,
  • draining,
  • Truncating,
  • Concentrating,
  • lightening,
  • deflating,
  • decrementing,
  • shortening,
  • shrinking,
  • nipping,
  • Compacting,
  • reducing,
  • diminishing,
  • Abridging.
  •subtracting (verb)
  • Deducting,
  • lowering,
  • Discounting,
  • Eliding,
  • cutting,
  • docking,
  • depreciating,
  • Subtracting,
  • Deleting.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • bit,
  • chip,
  • depilation,
  • epilation,
  • flake,
  • food,
  • fragment,
  • gobbet,
  • minim,
  • mite,
  • modicum,
  • nick,
  • niggle,
  • scale,
  • sliver,
  • smidgen,
  • snip,
  • speck,
  • stub,
  • tad,
  • tittle,
  • touch,
  • touching,
  • wedge,
  • Ort,
  • shavings,
  • TADS,
  • parings,
  • gobbets,
  • little bit,
  • small amounts,
  • small bit,
  • small quantity,
  • tiny bit,
  • wee bit,
  • small amount.
  •v.
  • splinter.

Paraphrases for Shaving:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    shave.

• Other Related

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    razing.

Shaving Sentence Examples:

• Shaving boxes may then be filled with the melted soap, or it may be poured into a small drawer or any other mould; and after it has stood a few days to dry, it may be cut into square pieces ready for use.

• It took me an hour to get the taste of shaving soap out of my mouth.

Homophones for Shaving:

• spinning, shopping, sycophancy, safeness, shabbiness, Spanish Oak, sapiens, soupiness, spang, scavenge, supping, shipping, spiffing, spinach, saponaceous, submucosa, seeping, Sophonias, sponge, spunky, sawbones, successiveness, sea pink, spanish, seven seas, spinous, sac fungus, savings, sponge cake, Spininess, sweeping, saving, sixpence, sobbing, suspense, Soapiness, spank, spunk, sphinx, sex offense, shaping, subbing, spumous, sopping, scoffing, spongy, swabbing, sapience, spying, spaying, spinoza, spheniscus, sevens, spinose, spinacia, spinus, suaveness, shebang.