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Slim Down

Definition: Slim Down

Slim Down

Verb

1. Take off weight.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Slim Down

Synonyms: lose weight (v), melt off (v), reduce (v), slenderize (v), slim (v), thin (v). (additional references)
Antonym: gain (v). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Slim Down

DomainTitle

Books

  • Slim Down Sister: The African-American Woman's Guide to Healthy, Permanent Weight Loss (reference)

  • Look Great Naked: Slim Down, Shape Up and Tone Your Trouble Zones in Just 15 Minutes a Day (reference)

  • Look Great at Any Age: Defy Aging, Slim Down, and Optimize Health in Just 60 Minutes a Week (reference)

  • Doctor Help Me Slim Down!: Firm Up and Get Rid of Cellulite! (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Slim Down

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

slim down

82

slim down solution

20

the great north american slim down

8

larry north slim down

2

north american slim down

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Slim Down

Language Translations for "slim down"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

verschlanken, dünner machen, abspecken (to slim), abnehmen lassen, abnehmen (administer, amputate, become less crass, buy, carry out, decline, decrease, deduct, diminish, drop, ebb, extract, flag, go down, hold, inspect, lessen, lift, lose weight, pull off, reduce one's weight, relieve, remove, shrink, slack off, slacken off, slow down, tail off, take away, take down, take off, thin down, to lose weight, to take down, to take off, unpeg, unship, wane, wanes). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

imslay ownday

   

Russian 

  

худеть (lose flesh, slenderize, slimmed, slims, thin). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

adelgazar (become thin, fall away, lose, lose flesh, lose in weight, lose weight, reduce, slenderize, slim, thin). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

düşürmek (beat down, cause to fall, curtail, deflate, depress, drop, flop, knock off, let down, let fall, lower, mark down, overthrow, precipitate, pull dawn, put down, reduce, roll back, scale down, screw down, send down, sink, spill, step down, take from, throw, topple over, trip), azaltmak (abate, alleviate, appease, attenuate, ax, axe, Bate, cut back, cut down on, deaden, decrease, depress, derogate, detract, diminish, dock, fade in, impair, lessen, make a dent in, minimize, mitigate, put down, reduce, retrench, scale down, shorten, sink, step back, step down, taper off). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Slim Down

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-i-l-m-n-o-s-w"

-2 letters: disown, indols, indows, wisdom.

-3 letters: diols, downs, idols, indol, indow, lidos, limns, limos, linos, lions, loins, milos, minds, misdo, moils, molds, noils, sloid, soldi, solid, wilds, winds, winos, wolds.

-4 letters: dims, dins, diol, dols, doms, dons, down, dows, idol, ions, lido, lids, limn, limo, lino, lins, lion, loin, lown, lows, mids, mild, milo.

 Words containing the letters "d-i-l-m-n-o-s-w"
 

+2 letters: blindworms.

 

+3 letters: mindblowers.

 

+4 letters: misknowledge.

 

+5 letters: disemboweling, misknowledges.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Slim Down


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 6C 69 6D      44 6F 77 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101100 01101001 01101101 00100000 01000100 01101111 01110111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#108 &#105 &#109 &#32 &#68 &#111 &#119 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006C 0069 006D      0044 006F 0077 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

53787579238818980

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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