Словарь синонимов английского языка - shave

(v) 1. shear (off), cut (off), trim, clip, crop, snip off, bemove: He made a mistake in shaving off his beard, as it hid his weak chin. 2. pare, scrape, plane, whittle: If you shave just a hair off this side, it will fit into the hole. -(n) 3. close shave. narrow escape, Colloq narrow or near squeak, US squeaker: That was a close shave! You almost fell out the window!