Clues for the word "SHAVE"
We've had 90 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 156 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily American crossword on October 29, 2025.
Definition of shave
- - obs. p. p. of Shave.
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - To cut off thin slices from; to cut in thin slices.
- v. t. - To skim along or near the surface of; to pass close to, or touch lightly, in passing.
- v. t. - To strip; to plunder; to fleece.
- v. i. - To use a razor for removing the beard; to cut closely; hence, to be hard and severe in a bargain; to practice extortion; to cheat.
- v. t. - A thin slice; a shaving.
- v. t. - A cutting of the beard; the operation of shaving.
- v. t. - An exorbitant discount on a note.
- v. t. - A premium paid for an extension of the time of delivery or payment, or for the right to vary a stock contract in any particular.
- v. t. - A hand tool consisting of a sharp blade with a handle at each end; a drawing knife; a spokeshave.
- v. t. - The act of passing very near to, so as almost to graze; as, the bullet missed by a close shave.
Referring Clues
- Get rid of a shadow
- Morning activity
- Barber's work
- Eliminate one's shadow?
- Barber's job
- Partner of 79-Down
- Make smooth, in a way
- Clear the whiskers
- It may be close
- Trim
- Cut closely
- Get rid of a five-o'clock shadow
- Use a razor
- Skin smoother
- Eliminate the stubble
- Hair-razing experience?
- Barber's service
- Excise the stubble
- Make a face smoother
- Lose one's shadow, say
- Shed a five o'clock shadow
- Barbershop service
- Barbershop job
- It might be close
- Remove whiskers
- Barber offering
- Cut close
- Get rid of stubble
- Remove stubble
- Tonsorial offering
- Remove the stubble
- Remove the stubble, e.g.
- Tonsorial treatment
- Eradicate the stubble
- Get rid of shadow
- Make chocolate curls
- Remove one's whiskers
- Remove whiskers from
- Barbershop offering
- Prepare for an interview, in a way
- Neaten up in the morning
- Shower's partner
- Get rid of a beard
- Get rid of the Fu Manchu
- Barber's offering
- Barbershop request
- Morning ritual, for many
- Trim whiskers
- Tonsorial service
- Tonsorial operation
- Shear
- Hair-razing experience
- How to show your face?
- Morning activity, for some
- Get rid of a five o'clock shadow
- De-stubble-ize
- Service from Sweeney Todd
- Lose one's five o'clock shadow
- Remove hair with a razor
- Remove a beard
- Remove facial hair
- Did old Bob need a close one?
- Remove hair (which could be narrow)
- Husband hugs husband, as men regularly do?
- Lose one's shadow
- Cut into paper-thin slices
- Touch saint with own following
- Plane has unusually odd view
- Remove a stubble
- Sweeney Todd's offering
- Pare hair
- Third of Austrians are obliged to use plane
- Remove, as a beard
- Risk razor burn
- Reduce by a small amount
- Get rid of, as a mustache
- Paradoxically, a close one might be hair-raising
- Remove one's beard
- ___ ice (dessert)
- Take a plane to
- Prepare cheese, in a way
- What to do to chocolate to get little curls
- Did old Bob need a close one?
- Clear one's head?
- Show one's face, maybe
- Remove a five o'clock shadow
- Use a 26-Down
- Do the hair-removal step of an "everything shower"
- Manscape, perhaps
- Part of many a morning routine
Last Seen In
- Daily American - October 29, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 01, 2025
- New York Times - September 07, 2025
- New York Times - May 24, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 13, 2025
- Daily American - March 29, 2025
- USA Today - March 17, 2025
- USA Today - February 22, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - January 25, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - January 23, 2025
- Daily American - November 30, 2024
- LA Times - December 31, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 20, 2023
- Daily American - October 29, 2023
- LA Times - September 27, 2023
- USA Today - August 15, 2023
- LA Times - July 01, 2023
- New York Times - April 22, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - April 15, 2023
- Daily American - March 29, 2023
- Penny Dell Daily - January 05, 2023
- Daily American - November 30, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - October 08, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - September 11, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 31, 2022
- USA Today - August 22, 2022
- LA Times - August 13, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - June 23, 2022
- New York Times - June 03, 2022
- USA Today - January 26, 2018
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