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shave

verb as in cut outer covering off

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Bailey lets her displeasure be known by having a friend shave off her beautiful spray of kinky hair.

“Well Charlotte didn’t like it the first time. I got floods of tears, so I had to shave it off. And then I grew it back. I thought, hang on a second, and I convinced her it was going to be okay.”

From BBC

For now, many analysts still expect the Fed to shave another quarter percentage point from its main interest rate at its next meeting in December, but since Trump’s sweeping victory, odds have increased that Fed officials will pause next month or early next year as they wait to see what a second Trump administration might mean for fiscal policies and the economy.

On alcohol duties, she said that, from February 2025, there would be a 1.7% reduction in draught beer duty, to shave "a penny off a pint in the pub".

From BBC

“They had someone come and shave me, like my whole body, because that’s how they like the boys.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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