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to shave (wood, leather, etc.)
  1. 1 to shave (wood, leather, etc.), to sharpen (e.g. pencil), to plane, to whittle, to pare, to scrape off, to erode
  2. 2 to cut down (budget, expenses, staff, time, etc.), to curtail, to reduce
  3. 3 to delete, to erase, to remove, to cross out, to strike out
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Mastered counts as known everywhere (frontier, map, extension) but never appears in the quiz again. New wipes the review history for this item.

· examples

  • I sharpened a pencil with a knife.

    sense 1 · to shave (wood, leather, etc.)

  • Therefore, it is necessary to reduce the cost.

    sense 2 · to cut down (budget, expenses, staff, time, etc.)

  • Your pencils need sharpening.

    sense 1 · to shave (wood, leather, etc.)

  • I want a knife to sharpen my pencil with.

    sense 1 · to shave (wood, leather, etc.)

  • Their names were erased from the list.

    sense 2 · to cut down (budget, expenses, staff, time, etc.)

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