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Trimmed   /trɪmd/   Listen
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



... Our parlor is all trimmed with laurel and myrtle, looking like a great bower, and our mantel and table are redolent with bouquets of orange blossoms ...
— The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe • Charles Edward Stowe

... the campanile of the duomo as a beacon. For a quarter of a mile the road is straight and narrow; then it broadens into an open space and Castel Franco appears. It is a castle indeed. All the old town is within vast crumbling red walls built on a mound with a moat around them. Civic zeal has trimmed the mound into public "grounds," and the moat is lively with ornamental ducks; while a hundred yards farther rises the white statue of Castel Franco's greatest son, no other than Giorgione himself, a dashing ...
— A Wanderer in Venice • E.V. Lucas

... neighbours. There was a fine Abasian officer—Abasia is a province bordering on the Caucasus, conquered by the Russians. He wore a black fur cap with a red-and-white top to it,—night-cap fashion,—a white coat with cartridge cases in the breast and trimmed and lined with fur, a silver-lace belt round his waist, white gloves with fur backs, and green trousers with a silver stripe down the legs; yellow boots, a curved scimitar behind, and a richly-jewelled dagger in his belt in front completed his costume. ...
— Fred Markham in Russia - The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar • W. H. G. Kingston

... severed, whether for convenience of reading or otherwise. "Uncut," however, in its technical sense does not imply that the sheets are folded and bound just as they came from the press. The leaves may all be cut, and the tops trimmed, and even gilded, without striking terror to the heart of the bibliomaniac. Dibdin, indeed, treats this last mentioned symptom in merely a superficial way and dismisses it with a few cursory remarks, viz: "It may be defined a passion to possess books of which the edges have never been sheared ...
— Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs • Henry H. Harper

... hair, the glossy curls of which made a notable contrast to the matted and elfin locks of the savages around, was placed a cloth cap, with a gold tassel that hung down to his shoulder; his mustaches were trimmed with care, and a silk kerchief of gay hues was twisted round a well-shaped but sinewy throat; a short jacket of rough cloth was decorated with several rows of gilt filagree buttons; his nether garments fitted tight to his limbs, and were curiously ...
— Zanoni • Edward Bulwer Lytton


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