Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to shave
Participle: shaved
Gerund: shaving
Indicative
Present
| I | shave |
| you | shave |
| he;she;it | shaves |
| we | shave |
| you | shave |
| they | shave |
Perfect
| I | have shaved |
| you | have shaved |
| he;she;it | has shaved |
| we | have shaved |
| you | have shaved |
| they | have shaved |
Past
| I | shaved |
| you | shaved |
| he;she;it | shaved |
| we | shaved |
| you | shaved |
| they | shaved |
Pluperfect
| I | had shaved |
| you | had shaved |
| he;she;it | had shaved |
| we | had shaved |
| you | had shaved |
| they | had shaved |
Future
| I | will shave |
| you | will shave |
| he;she;it | will shave |
| we | will shave |
| you | will shave |
| they | will shave |
Future Perfect
| I | will have shaved |
| you | will have shaved |
| he;she;it | will have shaved |
| we | will have shaved |
| you | will have shaved |
| they | will have shaved |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | shave |
| you | shave |
| he;she;it | shave |
| we | shave |
| you | shave |
| they | shave |
Perfect
| I | have shaved |
| you | have shaved |
| he;she;it | have shaved |
| we | have shaved |
| you | have shaved |
| they | have shaved |
Imperfect
| I | shaved |
| you | shaved |
| he;she;it | shaved |
| we | shaved |
| you | shaved |
| they | shaved |
Pluperfect
| I | had shaved |
| you | had shaved |
| he;she;it | had shaved |
| we | had shaved |
| you | had shaved |
| they | had shaved |
Conditional
Present
| I | would shave |
| you | would shave |
| he;she;it | would shave |
| we | would shave |
| you | would shave |
| they | would shave |
Perfect
| I | would have shaved |
| you | would have shaved |
| he;she;it | would have shaved |
| we | would have shaved |
| you | would have shaved |
| they | would have shaved |
Imperative
| you | shave |
| we | Let's shave |
| you | shave |
Verbs conjugated like 'shave'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'shave'
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Inherited from Middle English shaven, schaven, from Old English sċafan (“to shave, scrape, shred, polish”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaban, from Proto-Germanic *skabaną (“to scrape”), from Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ- (“to cut, split, form, carve”).
2. Cognate with West Frisian skave, Dutch schaven, Low German schaven, German schaben, Danish skave, Norwegian Nynorsk skava, Swedish skava, Icelandic skafa, Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌽 (skaban), all roughly “to scrape, chafe, shave, plane, remove the outer lay of”. See: Proto-Germanic '
*skabaną', Dutch '
schaven', Low Saxon 'schaven', German, old spelling '
schaben', Danish '
skave', Norwegian, nynorsk '
skava', Swedish '
skava', Icelandic '
skafa'.
Verbs referencing "shave"
Norwegian, nynorsk
skava, German, old spelling
schaben, Tok Pisin sev, Welsh
siafio.
Sample Sentences
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The Lab'rer vvith the bending Scythe is ſeen / Shaving the Surface of the vvaving Green; […] [1713, [John] Gay, Rural Sports. A Poem. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 10:]
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I had little time to shave this morning.
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Now shaves with level wing the deep. [1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]
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[…] I watched for sunken stones; I was learning to clap my teeth smartly before my heart flew out, when I shaved by a fluke some infernal sly old snag that would have ripped the life out of the tin–pot steamboat and drowned all the pilgrims; […] [1899 March, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MI, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part II:]
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Kingsman’s two-hour 20-minute running time could have been shaved by around a fifth, without losing a great deal. [2017 September 19, Gwilym Mumford, “Kingsman: The Golden Circle review – spy sequel reaches new heights of skyscraping silliness”, in the Guardian:]
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The acceleration was impressive, and these trains should allow TfW to look at shaving a few minutes off schedules here and there in the fullness of time, […]. [2023 April 19, Pip Dunn, “Jack of all trades... and master of most”, in RAIL, number 981, page 57:]
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Took one of the goons, the fuck they gonna do?
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Shave him in the heart then the mandem smoke a zoot [2021 June 26, Rackz LC, “War” (1:45 from the start):]