Portion and Shaving

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Portion noun - A state or end that seemingly has been decided beforehand.

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Shaving and portion are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Shaving" instead a noun "Portion".

Nearby Words: portioned, portioning, porting, portionless

Shaving noun - A thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something.

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Portion and shaving are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Portion" instead a noun "Shaving".

Nearby Words: shave, shaved, shaver, shaven

The first time she demonstrates this power is during a hunger filled rampage where she eats a portion of one of her children's souls, shaving 40 years off his life and killing him.

Source: Soul Eating
Perhaps an egregious example would be in [PROTOTYPE], where even the real life location of Manhattan is rendered into a more rectangular shape by shaving off the entire portion north of 129th Street.

Source: Law of Cartographical Elegance
They also have access to a buffed version of King's Giant Swing, where they swing you around at lightspeed and for a much longer period of time, shaving off a ridiculously large portion of your lifebar.

Source: SNK Boss / Namco

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