When, standing before the mirror, he raised his chin and perceived the red spot beneath the white lather, he at once flew into a rage, and rapidly brought the razor to his neck, to cut right into the flesh.
Devant le miroir, quand il levait le menton et qu'il apercevait la tache rouge, sous la mousse blanche du savon, il lui prenait des rages soudaines, il approchait vivement le rasoir, près de couper en pleine chair.
Thereupon, deigning to operate in person, Cazaban began to stir up the lather and strop the razor.
Et Cazaban, daignant opérer en personne, battait le savon affilait le rasoir.
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He raised himself up, his razor in the air, and, repeating his words, his eyes dilated by the enormity of the thing, he said, "'We'll close the Grotto.'"
Il s’était soulevé, son rasoir en l’air, et il répéta, en scandant les mots, les yeux arrondis par cette énormité : « Nous fermons la Grotte. »
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I now understood the lines on Henriette's forehead,-- fine lines, traced as it were with the edge of a razor, which I had noticed the moment I saw her.
Je compris alors d’où provenaient les lignes comme marquées avec le fil d’un rasoir sur le front de la comtesse, et que j’avais aperçues en la revoyant.
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Mr. Shelby was standing before his dressing-glass, sharpening his razor; and just then the door opened, and a colored boy entered, with his shaving-water.
Un garçon de couleur entra au moment même, apportant de l’eau chaude à M. Shelby qui était en train de se raser.
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Besides, he never made use of the scraper or razor, which he considered beneath an artist's dignity.
Du reste, il n’usait jamais du grattoir, ni du rasoir, qu’il trouvait déshonorants.
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Razors and razor blades, including razor-blade blanks in strips
With a slit made by simply passing the edge of a razor across the metal, the outer box was still transpierced by the waves, but at one-sixth of the distance employed with the slit of 1 millimetre.
Avec une fente pratiquée, simplement en passant sur le métal le tranchant d'un rasoir, la boite extérieure est encore traversée, mais à une distance six fois moindre qu'avec la fente dé 1 millimètre.
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Then,' said she, he caught her by the hair, and he would have cut her throat with a razor which was lying on the chest of drawers if we hadn't arrived just in time to prevent the murder.
--Alors, achevait-elle, il l'a saisie par les cheveux, et lui aurait coupé la gorge avec un rasoir qui était sur la commode, si nous n'étions pas arrivés à temps pour empêcher le crime....
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razor clams
couteaux
Word forms
razor
noun
Singular
Plural
Common case
razor
razors
Possessive case
razor's
razors'
razor
verb
Basic forms
Past
razored
Imperative
razor
Present Participle (Participle I)
razoring
Past Participle (Participle II)
razored
Present Indefinite, Active Voice
I razor
we razor
you razor
you razor
he/she/it razors
they razor
Present Continuous, Active Voice
I am razoring
we are razoring
you are razoring
you are razoring
he/she/it is razoring
they are razoring
Present Perfect, Active Voice
I have razored
we have razored
you have razored
you have razored
he/she/it has razored
they have razored
Present Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I have been razoring
we have been razoring
you have been razoring
you have been razoring
he/she/it has been razoring
they have been razoring
Past Indefinite, Active Voice
I razored
we razored
you razored
you razored
he/she/it razored
they razored
Past Continuous, Active Voice
I was razoring
we were razoring
you were razoring
you were razoring
he/she/it was razoring
they were razoring
Past Perfect, Active Voice
I had razored
we had razored
you had razored
you had razored
he/she/it had razored
they had razored
Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I had been razoring
we had been razoring
you had been razoring
you had been razoring
he/she/it had been razoring
they had been razoring
Future Indefinite, Active Voice
I shall/will razor
we shall/will razor
you will razor
you will razor
he/she/it will razor
they will razor
Future Continuous, Active Voice
I shall/will be razoring
we shall/will be razoring
you will be razoring
you will be razoring
he/she/it will be razoring
they will be razoring
Future Perfect, Active Voice
I shall/will have razored
we shall/will have razored
you will have razored
you will have razored
he/she/it will have razored
they will have razored
Future Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I shall/will have been razoring
we shall/will have been razoring
you will have been razoring
you will have been razoring
he/she/it will have been razoring
they will have been razoring
Future in the Past Indefinite, Active Voice
I should/would razor
we should/would razor
you would razor
you would razor
he/she/it would razor
they would razor
Future in the Past Continuous, Active Voice
I should/would be razoring
we should/would be razoring
you would be razoring
you would be razoring
he/she/it would be razoring
they would be razoring
Future in the Past Perfect, Active Voice
I should/would have razored
we should/would have razored
you would have razored
you would have razored
he/she/it would have razored
they would have razored
Future in the Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice