- to shave (wood, leather, etc.); to sharpen (e.g. pencil); to plane; to whittle; to pare; to scrape off; to erode
- to cut down (budget, expenses, staff, time, etc.); to curtail; to reduce
- to delete; to erase; to remove; to cross out; to strike out
Godan verb with 'ru' ending; transitive verb
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Hertz and Avis are head to head competitors in the car rental business.
If the door doesn't fit, you might have to shave off a bit of the wood until it closes properly.