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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
shaven
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
head
▪ The winning edge for competitive swimmers sometimes means a shaven head.
▪ These men appeared with shaven heads and grim, worried expressions.
▪ She hardly made a bump under the sheet, only her small shaven head and long neck were visible.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He was chased by white youngsters, some with shaven heads.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Clean shaven, his hair was black, as were his thick brows.
▪ Even Hauser's face was standard: plump, clean shaven, pink, smooth as a baby's.
▪ Fair-haired, he was clean shaven and had a strong face.
▪ He was a bullet-headed child whose shaven hair showed that he had recently been sent to the cleansing station as verminous.
▪ His closely shaven face was tense and his usually sensuous mouth set in a grim line.
▪ James Archer was a tall man in his sixties, white-haired and dean shaven.
▪ One was about five foot six, clean shaven with dark hair and in his late twenties.
▪ The second man was about five foot eleven, again clean shaven but younger.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shaven

Shave \Shave\, v. t. [imp. Shaved (sh[=a]vd);p. p. Shaved or Shaven (sh[=a]v"'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Shaving.] [OE. shaven, schaven, AS. scafan, sceafan; akin to D. schaven, G. schaben, Icel. skafa, Sw. skafva, Dan. skave, Goth. scaban, Russ. kopate to dig, Gr. ska`ptein, and probably to L. scabere to scratch, to scrape. Cf. Scab, Shaft, Shape.]

  1. To cut or pare off from the surface of a body with a razor or other edged instrument; to cut off closely, as with a razor; as, to shave the beard.

  2. To make bare or smooth by cutting off closely the surface, or surface covering, of; especially, to remove the hair from with a razor or other sharp instrument; to take off the beard or hair of; as, to shave the face or the crown of the head; he shaved himself.

    I'll shave your crown for this.
    --Shak.

    The laborer with the bending scythe is seen Shaving the surface of the waving green.
    --Gay.

  3. To cut off thin slices from; to cut in thin slices.

    Plants bruised or shaven in leaf or root.
    --Bacon.

  4. To skim along or near the surface of; to pass close to, or touch lightly, in passing.

    Now shaves with level wing the deep.
    --Milton.

  5. To strip; to plunder; to fleece. [Colloq.]

    To shave a note, to buy it at a discount greater than the legal rate of interest, or to deduct in discounting it more than the legal rate allows. [Cant, U.S.]

Wiktionary
shaven
  1. Having been shaved. v

  2. (past participle of shave English)

WordNet
shave
  1. n. the act of removing hair with a razor [syn: shaving]

  2. [also: shaven]

shaven

adj. having the beard or hair cut off close to the skin [syn: shaved] [ant: unshaven]

shave
  1. v. remove body hair with a razor

  2. cut closely; "trim my beard" [syn: trim]

  3. cut the price of [syn: knock off]

  4. cut or remove with or as if with a plane; "The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood" [syn: plane]

  5. make shavings of or reduce to shavings; "shave the radish"

  6. touch the surface of lightly; "His back shaved the counter in passing"

  7. [also: shaven]

shaven

See shave

Usage examples of "shaven".

One first thought of the woman as a girl, but appreciation of her ample breasts brought realisation that she was in fact a shaven woman.

A horrid memory of Mastrovin came to his mind, the face which had glowered on him in the room in the Portaway Hydropathic, the face which he had seen distorted with fury in the library of Castle Gay--the heavy shaven chin, the lowering brows, the small penetrating eyes--the face which Red Davie had described as that of a maker of revolutions.

Freshly roused from his bunk the Dutchman wore no wig on his shaven head but his fine pointed moustaches showed him to be a man of fashion.

Old women with shaven heads went by, wrapped from armpit to ankle in black sarongs called sampots, with spotless white blouses.

As was his usual wont, Faelan was immaculately turned out, his black habit neatly brushed, his cowled scapular falling in precise folds, his tonsure gleaming newly shaven on his bowed head.

Elbryan was expected to bathe daily, to keep his clothing clean, and since his beard was splotchy and uneven, not yet that of a man, to keep his face clean shaven.

A shaven space of lawn one soft May evening, the wellremembered grove of lilacs at Roundtown, purple and white, fragrant slender spectators of the game but with much real interest in the pellets as they run slowly forward over the sward or collide and stop, one by its fellow, with a brief alert shock.

The women had their haire annointed and their heads covered with linnen : but the men had their crownes shaven, which were the terrene stars of the goddesse, holding in their hand instruments of brasse, silver and gold, which rendered a pleasant sound.

Two wore red robes, had shaven skulls, like the Atlantean priest he had seen on board the ship, and were servants of this foul god.

He was wiry but bullnecked, with a shaven head and a face seamed with tiny scars.

His head was shaven and always capped by an outrageous wide-brimmed hat feathering the gigantic plume of a diatryma bird.

Naked babies, whose shaven heads made a warm resting-place for flies, stared at Domini with a lustrous vacancy of expression.

Their thighs and shaven groins and the nether lips that flaccidly protruded there were all mucously slimy.

Not only the generals in full parade uniforms, with their thin or thick waists drawn in to the utmost, their red necks squeezed into their stiff collars, and wearing scarves and all their decorations, not only the elegant, pomaded officers, but every soldier with his freshly washed and shaven face and his weapons clean and polished to the utmost, and every horse groomed till its coat shone like satin and every hair of its wetted mane lay smooth-felt that no small matter was happening, but an important and solemn affair.

The Meereenese had gathered beneath the eastern windows, in a throng of shaven pates and hairy horns and hands and spirals.