shaven

verbcut outer covering off

Synonyms for shaven

verb cut outer covering off

Antonyms for shaven

hairless

adjective. without growth on body part

Word Origin & History

Old English sceafan (strong verb, past tense scof, past participle scafen), "to scrape, shave, polish," from Proto-Germanic *skaban (cf. Old Norse skafa, Middle Dutch scaven, German schaben, Gothic skaban "scratch, shave, scrape"), from PIE *skabh-, collateral form of root *(s)kep- "to cut, to scrape, to hack" (see scabies). Related: Shaved; shaving. Original strong verb status is preserved in past tense form shaven. Specifically in reference to cutting the hair close from mid-13c. Figurative sense of "to strip (someone) of money or possessions" is attested from late 14c.

Example Sentences forshaven

He was very fat, with a shaven, swarthy face and the dewlap of an ox.

I conceived a contempt for that shaven, scrawny skipper––I remember it well.

"The babies of frogs will become but frogs," said one shaven pate, laughing.

On his shaven head he wore a small skull-cap of plaited grass.

A greasy growth of beard was sprouting on the shaven parts of the cheeks.

They had dressed him in a gaberdine and set the yellow cap on his shaven poll.

"H'm," said the shaven man, quite unmoved by the end of Harvey's speech.

So that, apart from other missiles, our shaven heads were sure to be pelted with jeers.

They all wore ankle-length gowns, and they all had shaven heads.

Marry, saith she, to hear a shaven crown preach at the Cross!

shaven

Synonyms for shaven

Antonyms for shaven

hairless

smooth

smoother

smoothest

shaven

Synonyms for shaven

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