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trim - verb

  1. To make neat and trim; make presentable: clean(up), freshen(up), groom, neaten(up), slick up, spruce(up), tidy(up), trig(out). See order.
  2. To decrease, as in length or amount, by or as if by severing or excising: chop, clip, crop, cut, cut back, cut down, lop, lower, pare, prune, shear, slash, truncate. See increase.
  3. To make a slight reduction in (a price): shade, shave. See increase.
  4. To furnish with decorations: adorn, bedeck, deck(out), decorate, dress(up), embellish, garnish, ornament. See beautiful.
  5. To punish with blows or lashes: beat, flog, hide, lash, thrash, whip. Slang lay into, lick. See attack. reward.
  6. To win a victory over, as in battle or a competition: beat, best, conquer, defeat, master, overcome, prevail against or over, rout, subdue, subjugate, surmount, triumph over, vanquish, worst. Informal whip. Slang ace, lick. See win.
  7. To get money or something else from by deceitful trickery: bilk, cheat, cozen, defraud, gull, mulct, rook, swindle, victimize. Informal chisel, flimflam, take. Slang diddle, do, gyp, stick, sting. See honest.

trim down - phrasal verb

  1. To lose body weight, as by dieting: reduce, slim(down). See fat. increase.

trim - noun

  1. A state of sound readiness: condition, fettle, fitness, form, kilter, order, shape. See better.
  2. Something that adorns: adornment, decoration, embellishment, garnishment, garniture, ornament, ornamentation, trimming. See beautiful.

trim - adjective

  1. In good order or clean condition: neat, orderly, shipshape, snug, spick-and-span, spruce, taut, tidy, trig, well-groomed. Chiefly British tight. See clean. order.
  2. Having slender and graceful lines: sleek, streamlined. See beautiful.