shaving
nounHow many syllables in shaving?
There are 2 syllables in the word shaving.How to pronounce shaving:
Definition of shaving:
- shaving (noun):
- the act of one that shaves
- the act of removing hair with a razor.
- a thin slice of something such as wood, which has been shaved off
Synonyms for shaving:
chop
chunk
clipping
cutting
depilation
epilation
flake
grazing
hunk
lamella
length
lump
paring
part
portion
section
segment
shave
skimming
slice
sliver
snippet
splinter
strip
tonsure
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Antonyms for shaving:
abundance
barrel
batch
blob
block
bucketload
bulk
bunch
chunk
clod
clump
cluster
conglomerate
fistful
glob
gob
gobbet
good deal
great deal
heap
hunk
knob
load
lot
lump
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- mingled
- besought
- sordid
- shrewish
- prologue
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- counsel
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- panel
- bosomed
- behave
- stunted
- sequin
- render
- fisher
- cookbook
- baggy
- slowness
- glistened
- faulted
- demure
- whopping
- Siamese
- prolix
- platform
- outta
- hostage
- gunnings
- detach
- childlike
- bookmark
- raton
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- denseness
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- passers
- homo
- gathers
- flirted
- drizzled
- diffuse
- wildness
- declaim
- Turing
- staunchly
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- demote
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Syllable Fun Fact
The double consonant rule in English, affecting words like 'sitting', can indicate a short vowel sound and affect syllable division.
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