shave

For the verb: "to shave"

Simple Past:	shaved
Past Participle:	shaved, shaven

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
shave/ʃeɪv/

▶verb

• 1 cut the hair off one's face with a razor.

  ■ cut the hair off (a person or part of the body) with a razor.

• 2 cut (a thin slice or slices) off something.

• 3 reduce by a small amount.

• 4 pass or send something very close to.

▶noun

• 1 an act of shaving.

• 2 a tool for shaving very thin slices or layers from wood.

– origin OE sc(e)afan, of Gmc origin.