trim down

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Verb

trim down - cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"

cut down, reduce, trim back, cut, cut back, trim, bring down

shorten - make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration; "He shortened his trip due to illness"

spill - reduce the pressure of wind on (a sail)

quench - reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance

cut - have a reducing effect; "This cuts into my earnings"

retrench - make a reduction, as in one's workforce; "The company had to retrench"

slash - cut drastically; "Prices were slashed"

thin out - make sparse; "thin out the young plants"

thin - make thin or thinner; "Thin the solution"

minify, decrease, lessen - make smaller; "He decreased his staff"

detract, take away - take away a part from; diminish; "His bad manners detract from his good character"

deflate - reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices; "deflate the currency"

inflate - increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value; "inflate the currency"

downsize - reduce in size or number; "the company downsized its research staff"

subtract - take off or away; "this prefix was subtracted when the word was borrowed from French"

knock off, shave - cut the price of

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).

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.

3. To make a slight reduction in (a price):

shade, shave.

4. To furnish with decorations:

adorn, bedeck, deck (out), decorate, dress (up), embellish, garnish, ornament.

5. Informal. To punish with blows or lashes:

beat, flog, hide, lash, thrash, whip.

Slang: lay into, lick.

6. Informal. 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.

Idioms: carry the day, get the best of, get the better of, go someone one better.

7. Informal. 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.

phrasal verb
trim down

To lose body weight, as by dieting:

reduce, slim (down).

noun

1. A state of sound readiness:

condition, fettle, fitness, form, kilter, order, shape.

2. Something that adorns:

adornment, decoration, embellishment, garnishment, garniture, ornament, ornamentation, trimming.

adjective

1. In good order or clean condition:

neat, orderly, shipshape, snug, spick-and-span, spruce, taut, tidy, trig, well-groomed.

Chiefly British: tight.

Idiom: neat as a pin.

2. Having slender and graceful lines:

sleek, streamlined.

Translations

w>trim down

vt sep wick, budget, essay → kürzen (→ to auf +acc); hedge → (zurecht)stutzen; roses → zurückschneiden; to trim down one’s figure → etwas für seine Figur tun

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