| shave | | |
| n. (act) | 1. shave, shaving | the act of removing hair with a razor. |
| ~ depilation, epilation | the act of removing hair (as from an animal skin). |
| ~ tonsure | shaving the crown of the head by priests or members of a monastic order. |
| v. (body) | 2. shave | remove body hair with a razor. |
| ~ razor | shave with a razor. |
| ~ tonsure | shave the head of a newly inducted monk. |
| ~ neaten, groom | care for one's external appearance.; "He is always well-groomed" |
| v. (contact) | 3. shave, trim | cut closely.; "trim my beard" |
| ~ cut | shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of.; "cut my hair" |
| ~ fleece, shear | shear the wool from.; "shear sheep" |
| v. (possession) | 4. knock off, shave | cut the price of. |
| ~ cut down, reduce, trim back, trim down, cut, cut back, trim, bring down | cut down on; make a reduction in.; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits" |
| ~ mark down | reduce the price of. |
| v. (contact) | 5. plane, shave | cut or remove with or as if with a plane.; "The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood" |
| ~ cut | separate with or as if with an instrument.; "Cut the rope" |
| v. (contact) | 6. shave | make shavings of or reduce to shavings.; "shave the radish" |
| ~ cut up, carve | cut to pieces.; "Father carved the ham" |
| v. (contact) | 7. shave | touch the surface of lightly.; "His back shaved the counter in passing" |
| ~ crease, graze, rake | scrape gently.; "graze the skin" |
| ~ skive | remove the surface of.; "skive leather" |
| muff | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. muff | a warm tubular covering for the hands. |
| ~ hand wear, handwear | clothing for the hands. |
| n. (act) | 2. fumble, muff | (sports) dropping the ball. |
| ~ blooper, blunder, boner, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, bloomer, fuckup, pratfall | an embarrassing mistake. |
| ~ american football, american football game | a game played by two teams of 11 players on a rectangular field 100 yards long; teams try to get possession of the ball and advance it across the opponents goal line in a series of (running or passing) plays. |
| ~ baseball, baseball game | a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs.; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" |
| v. (social) | 3. muff | fail to catch, as of a ball. |
| ~ fail, neglect | fail to do something; leave something undone.; "She failed to notice that her child was no longer in his crib"; "The secretary failed to call the customer and the company lost the account" |
| v. (social) | 4. ball up, blow, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, botch, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, fuck up, fumble, louse up, mess up, mishandle, muck up, muff, screw up, spoil | make a mess of, destroy or ruin.; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement" |
| ~ go wrong, miscarry, fail | be unsuccessful.; "Where do today's public schools fail?"; "The attempt to rescue the hostages failed miserably" |
| whisker | | |
| n. (quantity) | 1. hair, hair's-breadth, hairsbreadth, whisker | a very small distance or space.; "they escaped by a hair's-breadth"; "they lost the election by a whisker" |
| ~ small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity | an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude. |
| n. (animal) | 2. sensory hair, vibrissa, whisker | a long stiff hair growing from the snout or brow of most mammals as e.g. a cat. |
| ~ hair | a filamentous projection or process on an organism. |
| v. (possession) | 3. bewhisker, whisker | furnish with whiskers.; "a whiskered jersey" |
| ~ furnish, provide, supply, render | give something useful or necessary to.; "We provided the room with an electrical heater" |
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