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Shave Past English Tense Scrape Form Close Meaning

正面 5852.shave
英 [ʃeɪv]美 [ʃev]

背面
释义:
vi. 剃须,剃毛vt. 剃,削去;修剪;切成薄片;掠n. 刮脸,剃胡子;修面;侥幸逃过,幸免;剃刀,刮刀
例句:
1. Monks shave their heads, as do devotees of the Hare Krishna movement.和尚要剃度,克利须那派教徒也一样。

1. scab- => shave ( sc -> sh, b -> p -> f).
shave 刮掉,刮脸,剃须来自古英语 sceafan,刮,剃,来自 Proto-Germanic*skaban,刮,剃,来自 PIE*skep,切,削,剪, 词源同 ship,shape.引申词义刮脸,剃须等。
shaveshave: see scabshave (v.)Old English sceafan (strong verb, past tense scof, past participle scafen), "to scrape, shave, polish," from Proto-Germanic *skaban (cognates: Old Norse skafa, Middle Dutch scaven, German schaben, Gothic skaban "scratch, shave, scrape"), from PIE *skabh-, collateral form of root *(s)kep- "to cut, to scrape, to hack" (see scabies). Related: Shaved; shaving. Original strong verb status is preserved in past tense form shaven. Specifically in reference to cutting the hair close from mid-13c. Figurative sense of "to strip (someone) of money or possessions" is attested from late 14c.shave (n.)c. 1600, "something shaved off;" from shave (v.); Old English sceafa meant "tool for shaving." Meaning "operation of shaving" is from 1838. Meaning "a grazing touch" is recorded from 1834. Phrase a close shave is from 1856, on notion of "a slight, grazing touch.""

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