What's the difference between shapen and shaven?

Shapen


Definition:

  • () of Shape

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Use of a moulded aponeurotic graft, shapened and then made rigid by heat and formalin, is a seductive method of tympanic reconstruction because of its simplicity and availability.
  • (2) In all these disorders, brain cells die because mis-shapen, mis-folded proteins build up in the brain.
  • (3) Other works being sold include Jake and Dinos Chapman’s Great Deeds against the Dead , with its horrific decapitated and genitalia-ripped fibreglass models, Jenny Saville’s Matrix and one of Damien Hirst’s early spin paintings , Beautiful mis-shapen purity clashing excitedly outwards painting (1995).
  • (4) Light and electron microscopical changes seen in the liver included an accumulation of glycogen and the presence of mis-shapen mitochondria in the hepatocytes.

Shaven


Definition:

  • () of Shave

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But normally, shaven-headed and shaven-faced, he could pass for a jumbo-sized Bob Crow .
  • (2) He was flanked by a triumvirate of aides, the excitable and matronly chief usher, a man at a computer screen who looked like a bedraggled version of Prince William, and a shaven-headed man who did absolutely nothing all day except fall asleep midway through the morning session.
  • (3) My shaven-headed Barbie was a squealing contestant.
  • (4) In terms of the public eye since the departure of Jeremy Paxman from Newsnight, we are now back to an entirely clean shaven BBC TV newsreading workforce too.
  • (5) That's what they were doing when an impassive, shaven-headed Lemtongthai stood in the dock to receive the strictest sentence ever imposed in South Africa for wildlife crime: Framing the rhino as a symbol of Africa and poaching as an affront to African pride, Judge Prince Manyathi sentenced him to 40 years.
  • (6) His shaven head shows off the fine, sculpted skull.
  • (7) Because of a continued requirement by the U.S. Army for clean-shaven faces, a significant racial furor and hostility has been aroused, and definitive medical care has been difficult to achieve.
  • (8) Police wearing black balaclavas raided Udaltsov's Moscow flat at around dawn, before carting the thin shaven-headed activist away for questioning at the investigative committee's headquarters.
  • (9) Nor is there much sign of Thanos, the studio's go-to background baddie, though his minion Nebula turns up in the form of Doctor Who's shaven-headed Karen Gillan.
  • (10) A total of 27 tests were conducted, covering three brands of half-mask respirators; facial hair on test subjects ranged from clean-shaven to bearded.
  • (11) The in vivo photodegradation of chlorpromazine (CPZ) in the skin was investigated after systemic administration of 3H-CPZ to shaven Wistar rats and exposure to UV-A.
  • (12) Stocky and shaven-headed, Clapper is part boardroom, part boxer.
  • (13) After 6 hr the dressing was removed, the shaven area was washed with ethanol and the dressing and washings were counted for 14C.
  • (14) He was filmed holding his left hand to his bloody, shaven head while continuing to drive with his right hand until it was safe to stop.
  • (15) The Beard Liberation Front has lamented the decision to go clean-shaven, saying: "We support people's right to dress and appear as they want so, while we regret Jeremy Paxman's decision to shave off his gravitas-adding beard, the choice should be entirely up to him, BBC pogonophobia notwithstanding."
  • (16) When the Guardian met Liu Xia around that time, she might have passed for a grad student despite her 49 years: a slight figure with a shaven head and a cigarette between her fingers.
  • (17) He's not quite clean shaven, his cropped hair a little grown out, and white bristles show through.
  • (18) Shaven and unshaven rats were exposed to a cold stress at 4 degrees C for 6 hr (SE and UE).
  • (19) But none of these events, not even Andy Murray reaching the final of the Australian Open, has generated half as much hullabaloo as the appearance on a stage in San Francisco of an ill-shaven old boy in jeans and sneakers to present his latest commercial product to the world.
  • (20) Georgios is a stern man, still strong, smartly shaven and dressed in a clean green polo short and jeans.

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