SHAVED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shaved mean? 

• SHAVED (adjective)
  The adjective SHAVED has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SHAVED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHAVED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having the beard or hair cut off close to the skin

Synonyms:

shaved; shaven

Similar:

beardless; whiskerless (having no beard)

clean-shaven; smooth-shaven; well-shaven (closely shaved recently)

 Context examples 

His majesty, according to the custom of the country, was only shaved twice a-week.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

One thing is very clear to me, and that is that the little chap with the front of his head shaved is a chief among them.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Thou hast shaved many a poor soul close enough, said the other; thou art only meeting thy reward: so he played up another tune.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

This, under his direction, I cleansed and sewed together, having first shaved the edges of the wound.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“What have you to say, you clean-shaved galley-beggar?” cried the fiery dame, turning upon the archer.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Uncle rushed out and bought a pair of dogskin gloves, some ugly, thick shoes, and an umbrella, and got shaved à la mutton chop, the first thing.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A squareness about the lower part of his face, and the dotted indication of the strong black beard he shaved close every day, reminded me of the wax-work that had travelled into our neighbourhood some half-a-year before.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Martin found himself shaking hands with a cranky-eyed, bald-headed man, whose face looked youthful enough from what little could be seen of it, for most of it was covered by a snow-white beard, carefully trimmed—by his wife, who did it on Sundays, at which times she also shaved the back of his neck.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He shaved hairs from the back of his hand, glanced along the edge with microscopic acuteness, and found, or feigned that he found, always, a slight inequality in its edge somewhere.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He was a gaunt, sallow young man, with hollow cheeks, and a chin almost as black as Mr. Murdstone's; but there the likeness ended, for his whiskers were shaved off, and his hair, instead of being glossy, was rusty and dry.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)