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Trimmed

adjective

1.

Made neat and tidy by trimming. Synonym: cut.

Trim

verb

(past & past part. trimmed; pres. part. trimming)

1.

Remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size. Synonym: pare. "Trim the photograph" , "Trim lumber"

2.

Decorate, as with ornaments. "Trim a shop window"

3.

Cut down on; make a reduction in. Synonyms: bring down, cut, cut back, cut down, reduce, trim back, trim down. "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"

4.

Balance in flight by regulating the control surfaces.

5.

Be in equilibrium during a flight.

6.

Decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods. Synonyms: dress, garnish.

7.

Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of. Synonyms: clip, crop, cut back, dress, lop, prune, snip.

8.

Cut closely. Synonym: shave.

9.

Adjust (sails on a ship) so that the wind is optimally used.

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"Trimmed" Quotes from Famous Books

... day or so I reached a second camp. Into this I decided to venture and explain who I was. Before taking this step, however, I rubbed off all the clayey coating on my skin, trimmed my hair and beard to a respectable length by means of a firestick, and threw away my bow, which was now my only remaining weapon; then I marched boldly into the camp. Some five or six bronzed prospectors were seated ...

— The Adventures of Louis de Rougemont - as told by Himself • Louis de Rougemont

... seaman; therefore, apart from the laws, rules, and regulations for the good preservation of his cargo, he was careful of his loading,—or what is technically called the trim of his ship. Some ships sailed fast on an even keel, others had to be trimmed quite one foot by the stern, and I have heard of a ship that gave her best speed on a wind when so loaded as to float a couple of ...

— The Mirror of the Sea • Joseph Conrad

... grayish mauve gown and the white-trimmed bonnet were close to him. Between them he faintly perceived a widely smiling face, and from this face broke at once a sickly torrent of speech, half Neapolitan ...

— A Spirit in Prison • Robert Hichens

... sat up in the lighthouse tower, And they trimmed the lamps as the sun went down; They looked at the squall, and they looked at the shower, And the night-rack came rolling up ragged and brown. But men must work, and women must weep, Though storms be sudden, and waters deep, And the harbour ...

— Andromeda and Other Poems • Charles Kingsley

... of all the deposits were discovered the remains of the very earliest inhabitants, with their hearths about which they sat in nudity and split bones to extract the marrow, trimmed flints, worked horn, necklaces of pierced wolf and bears' teeth; then potsherds formed by hand long before the invention of the wheel; higher up were the arms and utensils of the bronze age, and the weights of nets. ...

— Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe • Sabine Baring-Gould

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