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trimmingnoun failure to win a contestour football team suffered a pretty severe trimming beating, defeat, drubbing, licking, loss, lump, overthrow, plastering, rout, shellacking, trouncing, whipping collapse, debacle(also débâcle), failure, fiasco, fizzle, flop, nonsuccess, setback, upsetlurch, shutout, washout, whitewash success, triumph, victory, win accomplishment, achievementblowout, cakewalk, landslide, romp, runaway, sweep, walkaway, walkover trimmingverbpresent participle of trimto achieve a victory overa speed skater who consistently trimmed all his competition beating, besting, conquering, defeating, dispatching, doing down(British), getting, getting around, licking, mastering, overbearing, overcoming, overmatching, prevailing (over), skunking, stopping, subduing, surmounting, taking, triumphing (over), upending, winning (against), worsting sweepingedging (out), nosing out, pipping(British)annihilating, blowing away, blowing out, bombing, breaking, burying, clobbering, creaming, crushing, drubbing, finishing, flattening, overwhelming, routing, shellacking, skinning, slaughtering, smoking(slang), snowing under, thrashing, trouncing, upsetting, walloping, waxing(slang), whippingcapping, excelling, flourishing, scoring, succeedingknocking off, knocking over, overpowering, overthrowing, subjugating, unseating, vanquishingacing (out), bettering, eclipsing, exceeding, excelling, outdistancing, outdoing, outfighting, outshining, outstripping, overtopping, surpassing, topping, transcending getting the better of, knocking for a loop losing (to) falling, giving up, going down, going undercollapsing, failing, flopping, flunking, folding, washing out to defeat by a large marginthey trimmed our team by 40 points annihilating, blowing away, bombing, burying, clobbering, creaming, drubbing, dusting, flattening, pasting, routing, shellacking, skinning, skunking, smoking(slang), smothering, snowing under, thrashing, tromping, trouncing, walloping, waxing(slang), whipping, whomping, whopping(or whapping), whupping sweeping, upsettingbeating, besting, conquering, dispatching, hurdling, licking, mastering, overbearing, overcoming, overmatching, prevailing (over), subduing, surmounting, taking, throwing, triumphing (over), winning (against), worstingcrushing, knocking off, knocking over, overpowering, overthrowing, overwhelming, subjugating, upending, vanquishingacing (out), bettering, eclipsing, exceeding, outdistancing, outdoing, outfighting, outshining, outstripping, overtopping, surpassing, topping, transcendingedging (out), nosing out, pipping(British)capping, excelling, flourishing, scoring, succeedingbreaking, destroying, doing in, finishing, sinking, slaughtering beating the pants off, eating alive, running circles around(or running rings around), wiping the floor with(or wiping the ground with) to make (something) shorter or smaller with the use of a cutting instrumenttrimmed her bangs bobbing, clipping, cropping, cutting, cutting back, docking, lopping (off), nipping, paring, polling, pruning, shaving, shearing, snipping skiving, whittlingmanicuring, mowingpinching, stumpingcurtailing, shortening elongating, extending, lengthening to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becomingtrim a tree for Christmas adorning, arraying, beautifying, bedecking, bedizening, blazoning, caparisoning, decking, decorating, doing, doing up, dolling up, draping, dressing, embellishing, emblazing, embossing, enriching, fancifying, fancying up, festooning, garnishing, glitzing (up), gracing, gussying up, ornamenting, prettying (up) accessorizing, dressing up, trapping, tricking (out)brightening, freshening, smartening, sprucing (up)bossing, chasingbraiding, embroidering, feathering, figuring, filigreeing, filleting, flouncing, frilling, fringing, furbelowing, garlanding, hanging, lacing, ribboning, swagging, wreathingappliquéing, gilding, paintingdiamonding, gemming, impearling, jeweling(or jewelling), pearlingredecorating, redoing blemishing, defacing, disfiguring, marring, scarring, spoiling simplifying, streamliningbaring, denuding, dismantling, displaying, divesting, exposing, revealing, stripping, uncoveringuglifying to make neattrimmed the shrubbery in order to enhance the house's curb appeal neatening, picking up, redding (up or out)(chiefly dialect), sprucing (up), straightening (up or out), tidying (up) arranging, arraying, classifying, codifying, disposing, drawing up, marshaling(or marshalling), ordering, organizing, ranging, systematizing disarranging, disarraying, discomposing, disheveling(or dishevelling), disordering, disorganizing, disrupting, disturbing, jumbling, messing (up), mixing (up), muddling, mussing, rumpling, scrambling, shuffling, tousling, tumbling, upsetting ca. 1525 |