shave something off something
shave
noun[ C ]
uk /ʃeɪv/ us /ʃeɪv/
the act of shaving, especially a man's face: 剃毛发;（尤指）刮脸，修面
need a shaveHe had been up all night and needed a shave.
have a shaveUKHe washed and had a shave.他洗了把脸，又刮了胡子。

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shave | American Dictionary

shave
verb[ I/T ]
us/ʃeɪv/
to remove hair from the face or body by cutting it close to the skin with a razor (= a device with a blade):
[ T ]He shaved his face.
[ I ]He carefully shaved around the cut on his cheek.
[ M ]I was amazed to see he had shaved off his beard.
If you shave an amount off or from an object or surface, you cut a thin layer from it:
[ M ]She shaved about an eighth of an inch off the door, and now it closes.

shave

noun[ C ]us/ʃeɪv/
After three days of camping, he needed a good shave.

Examples of shave

shave
An ordinary circular shaving mirror upon its stand, for use in lighting the insect from the side.
Bodies are uniformly hair free - the results of waxing, depilatories, shaving or electrolysis, thus making the muscles even more visible.
The area for surgery on the back of the animals was shaved and disinfected with ethanol.
The skin was shaved and an incision measuring 1 cm long was made through the skin and body wall.
Each creature had a cross shaved on the top of its hairy head.
The susceptible animals had four shaved feeding sites on their necks and flanks.
The shaft shaved off excess clay and made the pellet smooth, shiny, and round.
I simply don't feel like shaving every day.
His dervishes shaved their beards, wore earrings, and listened to music: ibid., 47.
After shaving the left side of his face, he stopped breathing.
People discovered their physical deterioration meant necessary interventions of being washed, shaved, dressed, fed and eventually using a wheelchair.
The whole face, including the whiskers, was shaved.
Logic suggests that participants might have used soaps, shaving lotions, hair dressing, etc. which might have conflicted with or masked the materials used in the experiment.
The omissions tended to be on items that are outside the realm of experience of young children, such as cigar, judge and waitress, weaving, begging and shaving.
Sentinels were confined within a cattle race and an area of the hide (c. 100 mm x 100 mm) was cleansed and shaved before administration of a local anaesthetic (lignocaine).
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