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  1. transitive verb To make neat or tidy by clipping, smoothing, or pruning: trimmed his moustache.
  2. transitive verb To remove (excess) by cutting: trim a budget.
  3. transitive verb To remove the excess from by or as if by cutting: trimmed off the rotten wood.

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velvet ·  scarf ·  tunic ·  ribbon ·  collar ·  waistcoat ·  trimming ·  cape ·  gown ·  stripe ·  drapery ·  embroidery

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trim:   trimmer ·  trimming ·  trimmed ·  trims
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  1. Middle English trimmen, to make firm, from Old English trymman, from trum, strong; see deru- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also trimme, trym, trymme; an altered form, after the verb, of *trum, from Middle English trum (only in comp. mistrum, untrum), from Anglo-Saxon trum, firm, strong, =Old Low German trim, in the deriv. betrimmed, betrimmd, decked, trimmed, adorned, trimmke, an affected, overdressed person; root unknown.
  2. Early modern English also trimme; from trim, adjective
  3. Early modern English also trimme, trymme; from Middle English trimen, trymen, trumen, from Anglo-Saxon trymian, trymman, make firm, strengthen, also set in order, array, prepare, from trum, firm, strong: see trim, adjective
  4. from trim, v.
 

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