Shaved

Definition: Shaved

Shaved

Adjective

1. Having the beard or hair cut off close to the skin.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "shaved" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Synonym: Shaved

Crosswords: Shaved

And if you forget one thing i will have you shaved, sterilized, and destroyed (Twelve Monkeys; writing credit: David Webb Peoples)

Honestly! Me mind boggles at the very idea, a grown man and you haven't shaved with a safety razor (A Hard Day's Night; writing credit: Alun Owen)

I hate it when they ain't been shaved. (Near Dark; writing credit: Kathryn Bigelow; Eric Red)

Because I shaved! (The Santa Clause; writing credit: Leonardo Benvenuti; Steve Rudnick)

1968: Parents begging you to get your hair cut. 1998: Children begging you to get their heads shaved. (references; author: unknown)

Cedar shingles should be shaved and saved. (references; author: unknown)

Shaved in Mexico (1915)

I Shaved My Legs for This (2001)

Shaved Sinners 3 (1990)

Who Shaved Lynn LeMay? (1989)

Shaved Sinners 2 (1988)

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Books

• Shaved Fish (reference)

• Skinheads Shaved for Battle: A Cultural History of American Skinheads (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Shaved and Dangerous (reference)

• Shaved Fish (reference)

• Shaved for Battle (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Pictured here is an experimental guinea pig lying on a lab table. Also seen are the hands of a female technician injecting a substance into the animal. The fur around the area being injected has been shaved away, exposing the area to be injected. Perhaps a chemical is being tested for its carcinogenic effect. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

Scene in the control room during Wahoo's 27 January 1943 action with a Japanese destroyer. When the photo was taken the submarine was at 300 feet, rigged for depth charges. Six charges had just gone off and the crew was awaiting more. Lieutenant Commander Dudley W. Morton, Wahoo's Commanding Officer, reported this action as: "Another running gun fight ... destroyer gunning ... Wahoo running". Shaved head on crewman at right is a product of an Equator crossing ceremony three days previously. Credit: NAVY.

Loading shaved ice into shrimp boat, Morgan City, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Shovelling shaved ice into conveyor system. Vegetable packing plant, Elsa, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Packing carrots into boxes. Icing is accomplished by dropping shaved ice from chute into crate. Elsa, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

His Majesty, according to the custom of the country, was only shaved twice a week

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Civil Liberties

Libya

Some practicing Muslims have shaved their beards to avoid harassment from security services. (references)

Afghanistan

A man who had shaved or cut his beard was subject to imprisonment for 10 days and required to undergo Islamic instruction. (references)

Economic History

Slovak Rep

In contrast, the National Bank of Slovakia in May warned that the trade balance would deteriorate this year and shaved its forecast for GDP growth to the lower end of its forecasting range of 2.8-3.2 percent. (references)

Human Rights

Ghana

He claimed that members of the presidential guard shaved his head with a broken bottle. (references)

Indonesia

Bodies, believed to be theirs, bearing evidence of gunshot wounds, were found floating in the Kumundu River on September 12 with their hands bound and heads shaved. (references)

Burkina Faso

There was no known action taken against the members of the security forces responsible for beating or otherwise abusing the persons in the following cases in 2000: The December case in which police used tear gas to disperse a student demonstration; the November beating of approximately 15 students; the August case in which police used tear gas to disperse a refugee demonstration; the April cases in which police shaved the heads of several demonstrators; and the April case in which police used tear gas to disperse a march. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "shaved": get shaved. Additional references.

Ending with "shaved": close-shaved.

Chinese 

刮 (scrape, scraped, scraping, shaven, shaving). (various references)

Danish

trimmet bogblok (shaved edge). (various references)

Dutch

gesnoeide kant (shaved edge). (various references)

Finnish

partansa (have a shave, have oneself shaved). (various references)

French

rasai, rasées, rasée, rasé (shaven, short, very short), rasâmes, rasèrent. (various references)

German

rasiert (shaven, shaves), rasierten, rasierte (barbered). (various references)

Greek 

ξακρισμένη πλευρά (shaved edge), ξακρισμένη άκρη (shaved edge). (various references)

Hebrew 

מ�'ולח (tonsured). (various references)

Hungarian

megborotválkozik (to get shaved, to shave). (various references)

Italian

taglio senza barbe (shaved edge). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

氷 (ice, shaved ice). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たねもの (seed, shaved ice with fruit syrup, type of noodle dish), �"おりすい (ice water, shaved ice), �"おりみず (ice water, shaved ice), �"おり (ice, shaved ice). (various references)

Korean 

면도하�" (shaven). (various references)

Manx

scrysst (scraped), baarit (clipped, lopped, shaven, shorn). (various references)

Pig Latin

avedshay.(various references)

Portuguese

margem aparada (cut edges, shaved edge). (various references)

Romanian

se bãrbieri (get shaved, have a shave, pile it on, scrape one's chin). (various references)

Russian 

брить;мех)обрезать бритый. (various references)

Spanish

corte desbarbado (shaved edge). (various references)

Swedish

putsad snitt (shaved edge), avjämnad snitt (shaved edge). (various references)

Turkish

tıraş olmak (get a shave, get shaved, have a shave, shave, shave oneself). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words ending with "shaved": reshaved, unshaved. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Shaved" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chakvad, scaved, scavved, shaev, Shahed, shaveg, shavel, shavie, shavu, sheged, Shevek, shived, shiveh, Shved. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ashed, deash, devas, hades, haves, heads, sadhe, saved, shade, shave.

-2 letters: aves, dahs, dash, deva, devs, edhs, hade, haed, haes, have, head, sade, save, shad, shea, shed, vase.

-3 letters: ads, ash, ave, dah, dev, edh, eds, had, hae, has, hes, sad, sae, sea, sha, she, vas.

-4 letters: ad, ae, ah, as, de, ed, eh.

+1 letter: sheaved.

+2 letters: adhesive, lavished, ravished, reshaved, unshaved, vanished.

+3 letters: adhesives, drawshave, evanished, handovers, harvested, overhands, overheads, shivareed, varnished, verandahs.

+4 letters: adhesively, drawshaves, driveshaft, enravished, hardcovers, misbehaved, overshadow, unravished, vanquished, vouchsafed.

+5 letters: driveshafts, heavenwards, nonadhesive, overhandles, overshadows, servanthood, slaveholder, unharvested, unvarnished.