Trim

Definition: Trim

Trim

Adjective

1. Thin and fit; "the spare figure of a marathon runner"; "a body kept trim by exercise".

2. (used of hair) neat and tidy; "a nicely kempt beard".

3. Of places; characterized by order and neatness; free from disorder; "even the barn was shipshape"; "a trim little sailboat".

4. (of persons) neat and smart in appearance; "a clean-cut and well-bred young man"; "the trig corporal in his jaunty cap".

5. Severely simple in line or design; "a neat tailored suit"; "tailored curtains".

Noun

1. A state of arrangement or appearance: "in good trim".

2. A decoration or adornment on a garment; "the trimming on a hat"; "the trim on a shirt".

3. Attitude of an aircraft in flight when allowed to take its own orientation.

4. Cutting down to the desired size or shape.

Verb

1. Remove the edges from: "pare one's fingernails"; "trim the photograph".

2. Decorate with ornaments, as of christmas trees.

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

4. Decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods.

5. Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of "dress the plants in the garden".

6. Cut closely; "trim my beard".

7. Trim carefully; of fingernails.

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

Date "trim" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Electrical Engineering

Slang in 1811

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

TRIM

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Trim

Beauty

Goodly, dapper, tight, jimp; gimp; janty, jaunty; trig, natty, quaint, trim, tidy,neat, spruce, smart, tricksy.

Cleanness

Neat, spruce, tidy, trim, gimp, clean as a new penny, like a cat in pattens; cleaned; Verb: kempt.

Clothing

Noun: clothing, investment; covering; dress, raiment, drapery, costume, attire, guise, toilet, toilette, trim; habiliment; vesture, vestment; garment, garb, palliament, apparel, wardrobe, wearing apparel, clothes, things; underclothes.

Disapprobation

Reprimand, chastise, castigate, lash, blow up, trounce, trim, laver la tete, overhaul; give it one, give it one finely; gibbet.

Equality

Render equal; Adjective: equalize level, dress, balance, equate, handicap, give points, spot points, handicap, trim, adjust, poise; fit, accommodate; adapt; (render accordant); strike a balance; establish equality, restore equality, restore equilibrium; readjust; stretch on the bed of Procrustes.

Falsehood

Prevaricate, equivocate, quibble; palter, palter to the understanding; repondre en Normand; trim, shuffle, fence, mince the truth, beat about the bush, blow hot and cold, play fast and loose.

Form

Verb: form, shape, figure, fashion, efform, carve, cut, chisel, hew, cast; rough hew, rough cast; sketch; block out, hammer out; trim; lick into shape, put into shape; model, knead, work up into, set, mold, sculpture; cast, stamp; build; (construct).

Form, figure, shape; conformation, configuration; make, formation, frame, construction, cut, set, build, trim, cut of one's jib; stamp, type, cast, mold; fashion; contour; (outline); structure; plasmature.

Irresolution

Shuffle, palter, blink; trim.

Ornament

Garnish, trim, dizen, bedizen, prink, prank; trick out, fig out; deck, bedeck, dight, bedight, array; begawd, dress, dress up; spangle, bespangle, powder; embroider, work; chase, emboss, fret, emblazon; illuminate; illustrate.

Punishment

Strike; deal a blow to, administer the lash, smite; slap, slap the face; smack, cuff, box the ears, spank, thwack, thump, beat, lay on, swinge, buffet; thresh, thrash, pummel, drub, leather, trounce, sandbag, baste, belabor; lace, lace one's jacket; dress, dress down, give a dressing, trim, warm, wipe, tund, cob, bang, strap, comb, lash, lick, larrup, wallop, whop, flog, scourge, whip, birch, cane, give the stick, switch, flagellate, horsewhip, bastinado, towel, rub down with an oaken towel, rib roast, dust one's jacket, fustigate, pitch into, lay about one, beat black and blue; beat to a mummy, beat to a jelly; give a black eye.

State

Tone, tenor, turn; trim, guise, fashion, light, complexion, style, character.

Noun: state, condition, category, estate, lot, ease, trim, mood, pickle, plight, temper; aspect; (appearance), dilemma, pass, predicament.

Crosswords: Trim

Albanian (baresark, berserk, berserker, brave, cant, courageous, dare devil, daring, Dauntless, Doughty, fearless, gallant, game, Hardy, lion-hearted, manful, plucky, reckless, spunky, stouthearted, valiant, valor, valorous, valour), Swedish (trim).

Trim the sails (James and the Giant Peach; writing credit: Karey Kirkpatrick)

I would suggest that those of us with stout hearts and trim waistlines start using the stairs (The Towering Inferno; writing credit: Richard Martin Stern; Thomas N. Scortia)

Well, at least were staying trim. (NewsRadio; writing credit: Scott Bank; Jenny Banks)

You act like you ain't hear him then gave him a little trim (Doo Wop (That Thing); performing artist: Lauryn Hill)

Trim mbi trima (1968)

In Fighting Trim (1899)

Trim Time (2002)

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References

• The 2001 Report on Car Trim Cleaners: World Market Segmentation by City (reference)

• The 2001 Long-Run Global Growth Prospects for Car Trim Cleaners: A Physioeconomic Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Fight Fat After Forty: The Revolutionary Three-Pronged Approach That Will Break Your Stress-Fat Cycle and Make You Healthy, Fit, and Trim for Life (reference)

• Sugar Busters! Cut Sugar to Trim Fat (reference)

• Hot Legs: Shaping a Tight & Trim Lower Body (reference)

• A Manual of Sail Trim (reference)

• The New Book of Sail Trim (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Auto Trim & Restyling News (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Firm & Trim (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Green Trim (reference)

• Pacific Trim (reference)

• Trim the Tree Ep [EP] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL CRB630 Radio Mounting Bracket Trim Plate (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Large Fold & Go Hanging Diaper Bag with Houndstooth Trim (reference)

• DeWalt DW935K 14.4-Volt 5-3/8" Cordless Trim Saw Kit  (reference)

• Porter-Cable 314P 4-1/2" Trim Saw (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Shown is marinated beef steak with potato vegetable salad. Choose lean cuts of meat and trim all fat. Serve fruit for dessert. Potato salad can be made with low fat dressing instead of mayonnaise. This was a poster in the "Healthy Eating Tips" series. See artwork: PV-30. Credit: Len Rizzi (photographer).

From an overhead angle, 2 pieces of red meat are shown with a knife on a cutting board, sitting on a white tile counter. Above the image, red lettering reads: "Choose lean meats, trim extra fats, avoid adding fat in cooking". Shot on 4x5 format. This was used in the 1989 calendar "Eat for Good Health" February 1989. See artwork: PV-19. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Time for a haircut - Carey V. Hodgson reading paper and getting a trim Astro party of Carey V. Hodgson. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

A trim recreational fishing boat. Credit: Fisheries.

Mariel Leonard (l) watches Lili Weik trim her Border Leicester sheep prior to judging at the Prince William County Fair, VA. . Credit: USDA.

TRIM and fit: Extension agent Wayne Cooley, ARS agronomist Randy Anderson, and farmer Gilbert Lindstrom work together as a team to figure the best methods for growing wheat in a dryland cropping system relying on a wheat/corn/fallow rotation. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

3 glass vin og 2 drinker tilsvarer 690 kcal. De blir du kvitt ved a drive hard trim i ca. 1 time og 45 minutter! Lykke til!. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Trim wherever you can -- C.C. Credit: Library of Congress.

I don't think you'll find much left to trim!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Blue Ball, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Progressive order of Mennonite, known as the "Car Mennonites," coming out of Sunday service. They use cars, but usually paint all nickel trim black. Credit: Library of Congress.

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But no vision of trim front gardens or of kindly lights in the windows poured a tender influence upon him now.

You want room for your thoughts to get into sailing trim and run a course or two before they make their port

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Health

Trim fingernails short. (references)

Economic History

Romania

Some foreign investors have run into labor problems when they have tried to trim staff in loss-making product lines. (references)

Zimbabwe

Though in 1998 the GOZ was successful in efforts to trim back its deficit, 1999 and especially 2000 are disastrous from a sustainable-deficit standpoint. (references)

Poland

Trade-Related Investment Measures (TRIM) Notification/Compliance: Poland notified the WTO that on January 1, 1997, it terminated the measure notified previously under Article 5.1 of the TRIMs. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "trim": be in trim ♦ be out of trim ♦ being in fighting trim ♦ emergency trim system ♦ exterior trim ♦ get in trim ♦ get into trim ♦ get things into trim ♦ getting in trim ♦ give smb. a trim ♦ have a trim ♦ In ballast trim ♦ in fighting trim ♦ in good trim ♦ in travelling trim ♦ in trim ♦ interior trim ♦ keep everything in good trim ♦ load and trim sheet ♦ out of trim ♦ put in trim ♦ side trim ♦ To trim in ♦ To trim up ♦ trim away ♦ trim back ♦ trim control ♦ trim costs ♦ trim cylinder ♦ trim down ♦ trim down smb.'s jacket ♦ trim garden ♦ trim in ♦ Trim of sails ♦ Trim of the masts ♦ trim off ♦ trim one's nails ♦ trim one's sails to every wind ♦ trim size ♦ trim the workforce ♦ trim up ♦ trim with braid ♦ trim with lace ♦ trim with the times. Additional references.

Beginning with "trim": trim-fitting, trim-quality, trim-rigged, trim-tab, trim-tabs, Trim-trab.

Ending with "trim": out-of-trim, pre-trim, tailplane-elevator-trim, take-off-out-of-trim, t-trim.

Albanian

zbukuroj (adorn, beautify, bedeck, bedizen, bespangle, bespread, color, colour, deck, decorate, dress, embellish, embroider, festoon, flatter, Flavor, flavour, garnish, gild the pill, glorify, inlay, intersperse, landscape, ornament, pink, prettify, set with, smarten up, stud, touch up, trap, trick out, water down), zbukurim vitrine, stolis (adorn, array, bedizen, deck, decorate, dress, embellish, enchase, ornament, prank, tire, trap, trick up), rregulloj (accommodate, adjust, amend, arrange, attemper, clear up, compose, contrive, control, correct, debug, dispose, dispose of, do, fix up, model, modulate, order, patch up, rate, readjust, redress, regularize, regulate, repair, set right, set the tune, settle, shape, Spruce, straighten, tidy up), qortoj (admonish, berate, call down, carpet, castigate, chide, come down on, correct, damn, decry, discommend, dish it out, knock, lecture, light into, Peck, pull up, rap, rebuke, reprehend, reproach, reprove, scold, take to task, tell off, twit, upbraid), pres majë (cut back, obtruncate, truncate), pjerrësi (cocking, declination, declivity, gradient, incidence, inclination, incline, knee, pitch, ramp, recliner, scarp, set, shearing, site, slant, slope, splay, talus, tilt), përshtat (accommodate, adapt, adjust, arrange, assort, enable, fit, fit in, match, readjust, regulate, retool, specialize), i rregullt (above board, correct, done, even, formal, frequent, habitual, honest, just, licit, measured, neat, normal, on the level, orderly, regular, right, steady, systematic, systematical, tidy, trig), gjendje e mirë, gjendje e drejtë e ngarkesës. (various references)

Arabic 

‏توازن السفينة أو الطائرة, ‏شذب (cut, cut back, lop, manicure, pare, prune, refine, tip, truncate), ‏شذب الشعر, ‏رصع (beset, embay, inlay, insert, intersperse, recess, set, stud), ‏رتب (arrange, clean, collocate, construct, corral, dispose, do, form, hierarchy, lash up, line, marshal, ordain, order, pack, pigeonhole, plume, put in order, put things straight, range, rate, set, shape, sort, spruce up, stow, straighten, tidy), ‏أنيق (bijou, chic, classy, coxcomb, dainty, dapper, dashing, dinky, dressy, elegant, exclusive, fine, gallant, genteel, good looking, gracious, jaunty, ladylike, mincing, natty, neat, nice, perky, personable, posh, presentable, rich, saucy, seemly, sharp, smart, smug, sophisticated, spick and span, sporting, sportsmanlike, sporty, spruce, stylish, suave, swagger, swell, tailor made, taut, tidy, tight, well groomed), ‏خفض عدد العاملين, ‏طرى الشعر, ‏على نحو حسن الترتيب, ‏زركشة داخلية, ‏زخرف (adorn, bedeck, deck, decorate, do, embellish, embellishment, emboss, embroider, enrich, flourish, garnish, grace, illuminate, illustrate, lard, ornament, ornamentation, string, trace, trick, trick out, trick up), ‏زخرفة الملابس, ‏زخرفة خارجية, ‏بأناقة (in refined manner, richly, snug), ‏زين (apparel, bedeck, deck, dress, enhance, figure, gem, grace, hang, invest, ornament, paint, pattern, pipe, plate, prettify, prink, smarten, trick, varnish), ‏مزود على نحو ملائم, ‏تهيئ (ready), ‏حالة (case, circumstance, condition, conjuncture, drama, estate, event, feather, fettle, incident, job, manner, nick, occurrence, phase, picture, place, plight, pose, position, posture, rate, shape, situation, state, status, way, weather, whack), ‏حسن الترتيب, ‏حلق (aspire, circle, ear ring, fauces, flatten out, flit, float, fly, fly off, gorge, gullet, hawk about, larynx, pharynx, plane, ring, rise, shaving, soar, take off, throat, tower), ‏وازن السفينة, ‏قص الشعر, ‏قلل النفقات, ‏قلم (clip, cut, cut back, liner, manicure, pare, pen, prune, streak, stria, stripe), ‏قلم الأظافر, ‏لاءم الشراع, ‏نظام حسن, ‏هذب (chasten, civilize, cultivate, edify, educate, elevate, file, geld, lop, perfect, polish, prune, refine, retouch, revise, shear off, sublimate, touch, touch up), ‏مرتب (earning, in order, orderly, regular, salary, stipend, well arranged, well ordered), ‏زخارف (housing, trappings). (various references)

Bulgarian 

подреденост, лавирам (beat, board, claw, tack), балансиране (compensation, equilibrium), почиствам фитил, подстригвам (cut smb.'s hair, give smb. a trim, shear, shingle), подрязвам фитил, издокаран (in full rig, pansy, spiffing, spiffy, trig), подреждам (adjust, arrange, assort, compose, dispose, do up, plash, pleach, preen, process, put in order, seriate, snug, sort out, tidy), нареждам (arrange, bid, collocate, decree, dispose, dress, enjoin, have, lay out, make, ordain, order, pack, pitch, range, seriate, set, set out, set up, settle, sort out, tell), подреден (in good order, neat, orderly, prim, tidy, tight, well arranged), подкастрям (clip, cut back, prune off), перваз (baseboard, border, edge, ledge, sill, skirt, skirting, skirting board, washboard), измамвам (abuse, befool, beguile, catch, chisel, chouse, clip, cross, dash, defraud, diddle, fix, flam, fob, fool, gaff, go back on, green, gull, hijack, kid, mislead, mock, nobble, overreach, play false, pluck, prey, pull a fast one, put across, put on, screw, sell, shaft, short-change, slip over, spoof, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trick), изправност (kilter, order, reliability, rights), изигравам (bamboozle, cheat, con, diddle, do smb., fob, hoodwink, let in, milk, outwit, play out, prey, sell, skin, skunk, suck in, trepan, trick), подрязвам (clip, cut short, dock, lop, nip, pare, scissor, undercut), готовност (alacrity, avidity, eagerness, forwardness, goodwill, preparedness, readiness, willingness), стегнатост (conciseness, tidiness, tightness), стегнат (close-textured, compact, concise, crisp, firm, natty, neat, rakish, sailorly, serried, sinewy, soldierlike, soldierly, spiffing, spiffy, taut, tidy, tight, tricksy, trig, well groomed), уравновесявам (balance, countervail, counterweigh, equalize, equilibrate, equipoise, equiponderate, offset, poise, steady), украсявам (adorn, array, color, colour, deck, decorate, dress, embellish, embroider, enchase, enrich, flatter, garnish, glorify, grace, lard, ornament, prank, set, titivate), скастрям (pull up, set down, wig), спретнат (dapper, dinky, prim, rakish, sailorly, smart, smug, snug, tidy, tight, tricksy, trig, well groomed), заглаждам (hone, turn), корниз (coping, cornice, drip-moulding, dripstone, eaves, label, ledge, molding, moulding, perch), начин на подстригване, гарнирам (garnish), външен вид (exterior, face, outward, person, personage, semblance, superficies), орязвам (clip, cut off, pare), облекло (apparel, array, attire, clothes, clothing, dress, dressing, fig, garb, garments, investment, livery, rig, rigging, tog, turnout, vest, vesture, wear), одялвам (hew), стягам (accouter, accoutre, bind, brace, compact, constrain, constrict, do up, gripe, hold in, hoop, impact, lace, lace up, lock, pack, pinch, preen, screw up, straiten, tense, tighten, truss), чист (absolute, chaste, clean, cleanly, clear, crisp, crystal, downright, fair, fine, fresh, heavenly, immaculate, incorrupt, innocent, lucid, mere, native, natty, neat, net, orderly, oriental, pellucid, pristine, pure, rank, sanitary, self, sheer, simon-pure, soilless, solid, stainless, sterling, straight, sublime, sweet, taintless, unadulterated, unalloyed, unblemished, unmixed, unpolluted, unsophisticated, unspotted, unstained, virgin, virginal, virtuous, white, white-handed). (various references)

Chinese 

修剪 (prune). (various references)

Czech

trimovat, stav (condition, estate, fettle, frame of mind, order, posture, profession, quality, sort, state), elegantní (becoming, ciceronian, dapper, dashing, dressy, elegant, fashionable, full-fashioned, glamorous, glamourous, graceful, light-some, natty, neat, sleek, smart, snappy, sophisticated, Spruce, swanky, swell), obrat (conversion, ply, return, reverse, rifle, spoil, strip, turn, turnover, veer), okrást (pick, Rob), ozdoba (adornment, decorate, decoration, garnish, grace, ornament, topping), ozdobit (adorn, decorate, embellish, garnish), přistřihnout (clip), úprava (adjustment, alteration, finish, form, layout, settlement, treatment), rovnováha (balance, equanimity, equilibrium, equipoise, poise, stability), zredukovat (reduce, retrench, scale down), udržovaný, upravený (dapper, jimp, smart, Spruce, tidy), upravit (adapt, adjust, alter, arrange, do up, dress, fix, modify, organize, readjust, redress, regulate, sleek, tidy, touch up, treat), výstroj (equipment, fittings, gear, outfit), ve formì, pohotovost (alert, aptitude, despatch, dispatch, readiness). (various references)

Danish

tilrette (dress type), kantskære, afskårede papirstrimler (cut-off). (various references)

Dutch

garneren (fit out, garnish), beslaan (become steamy, comprise, dim, fill, fit out, garnish, get blurred, get covered with, get dim, occupy, shoe, take, take up), afzetten (amputate, amputation, depose, deposit, deprive, dismiss, fit out, fleece, garnish, put off, shut off, stop, switch off, take off, turn off). (various references)

Esperanto

plibeligi iom, garni (fit out, garnish). (various references)

Faeroese

pynta (fit out, garnish). (various references)

Farsi 

پیراسته , پیراستن (Decorate, Dress, Embellish), پاکیزه (Brisk, Clean, Natty, Neat, Spruce, Sprucy, Tidy), مرتب (Intrinsic, Kilter, Methodic, Neat, Ordered, Orderly, Prissy, Regular, Shipshape, Straight, Tidy), چیدن (Arrange, Clip, Crop, Cut, Lop, Mow, Pare, Pick, Pickup, Pluck, Pull, Set, Snip), وضع (Aspect, Behavior, Deduction, Demeanour, Gesture, Imposition, Lie, Mien, Ordonnance, Phase, Poise, Pose, Position, Posture, Self, Setup, Situation, Speed, Stance, Station, Status, Stick), حالت (Attitude, Case, Condition, Estate, Grain, If, Mood, Pose, Posture, Predicament, Self, Situation, Speed, Stance, State, Status, Temper, Temperament, Vein), تودوزی وتزءینات داخلی اتومبیل , تروتمیز (Prissy, Shipshape, Trig), تراشیدن (Carve, Erase, Excoriate, Expunge, Face, Grain, Grave, Pare, Rase, Raze, Scrape, Shave, Whittle), زینت دادن (Adorn, Embellish), اراستن (Apparel, Arrange, Array, Attire, Brave, Clothe, Embroider, Equip, Grace, Groom, Habit, Illustrate, Line, Perk, Pretty, Prim, Primp, Prune, Range, Rank, Stud, Tidy), درست کردن (Adapt, Address, Agree, Build, Clean, Compose, Concoct, Devise, Emend, Fix, Gully, Integrate, Make, Mend, Organize, Redd, Regulate, Right, Straighten, Weave). (various references)

Finnish

tasoittaa (equalize, even, level, make even, round balance, smooth), syrjätä (edge), somistaa (adorn, decorate, fix up), reunustaa (border, edge, line), oksia (prune), leikata (carve, clip, crop, cut, cut out, intersect, lance, operate, pare, prunce, shear, slice), koristaa (adorn, decorate, garnish). (various references)

French

garnir. (various references)

German

beschneiden (circumcise, clip, curtail, cut, cut back, dress, lop, pare, prune, to clip, trimming), zurechtmachen (dress, get ready, get up, make up, prepare), garnieren (decorate, fit out, garnish, to garnish), einfassen (border, edge, fence, fit out, garnish, gird, girded, girt, hedge, Mount, mounting, set in, surround, to surround, wall), besetzen (cast, edge, fill, fit out, garnish, garrison, occupy, reserve, seize, set, squat in, stock, stud, take, to stud). (various references)

Greek 

ψαλιδίζω (clip, scissor, shear, snip). (various references)

Hebrew 

מטופח (cherished, cultivated, fostered, nurtured, soigne, well groomed), מסודר (arranged, fixed, made up, orderly, settled, shipshape, taut), לתקן (mend, modify, overhaul, rectify, refit, repair, rule, set right), לשפות (plane, smooth), לשפע (cant, slant, splay), לקשט (adorn, deck, decorate, fringe, garnish, ornament, trick out, trick up), לעטר (crown, decorate, embellish, illuminate, illustrate, ornament), לזמור (clip, prune), לגזוז (clip, pare, set aside), לגזום (clip, cut back, lop, prune), לסדר (arrange, array, fix, ordain, order, organize, put in order, put things straight, settle, straighten), תקינות (normalcy, normality, orderliness, propriety, regularity), סדר (arrangement, order, sequence, succession). (various references)

Hungarian

rendes (decent, easy on the eye, easy to look at, good egg, jobholder, natty, neat, neatness, nice, normal, orderly, ordinary, ornery, regular, right, there are no flies on him, tidy, usual), rend (array, high officer of an order, order, orderliness, orderly sate, pattern, swath, swathe, tidiness, windrow), öltözet (clothes, clothing, garb, get up, get-up, habiliments, investiture, raiment, rig, rig out, spare suit of clothes, suit), állapot (clean bill of health, condition, congelation, estate, fettle, footing, kilter, morbidity, nick, plight, posture, repair, stage, state, status). (various references)

Indonesian

memangkas (prune), garis hiasan, apik (attractive, chic, neat, tidy). (various references)

Italian

tagliare (blend, carve, chop, clip, cross, cut, cut across, cut down, cut off, fell, get cut, hack, hew, knife, mow, reap, short cut, slice, snip), rasare (mow, shave), aggiustare (accommodate, adapt, adjust, attune, come out right, doctor, fit, fix, make do, mend, mount, overhaul, patch, place, put, repair, to fix, tune), finitura (finish, finishing), guarnire (decorate, dress, garnish, ornament), guarnizioni, orlare (edge, hem, purl), potare (clip, cut back, lop, prune), accurato (accurate, careful, clean, faithful, natty, nice, painstaking, painstakingly, particular, precise, sound, thorough, tidy, true), raffilatura (burr, cut-off, dressing, edging off, paring, shaving, trimming), rassettare (clear up, put in order, tidy), regolare (act, adjust, arm, bogey, cash up, control, control oneself, direct, even, formal, guide, level, modulate, normal, point, proper, regular, regularize, regulate, rule, rules, set, settle, smooth, Square, standard, steady, systematic, systematical, tune), rifilare (crop, foist, give, palm off), rimproverare (accuse, berate, blame, chide, grudge, lecture, rebuke, reprimand, reproach, reprove, scold, take to task, twit, upbraid), spuntare (appear, begin to grow, blunt, break the point of, check, come out, crop, cut the tip of, get, get blunt, peer, rise, score off, spring up, stick out, tick, well up), spuntata, raffilare (cut down, cut the margin of, dress type). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

瀟洒 (elegant, neat, refined), トリパノソーマ症 (sleeping sickness, toluene, torque, torque converter, tribune, trilemma, trill, trimmer, trimming, triple, triple crown, triple jump, triple play, trivia, trivialism, trooper, truffle, trypanosoma, trypanosomiasis, Turkey, turquoise), 整然 (accurate, orderly, regular, well-organized), 清楚 (neat and clean, tidy), 小さっぱりした (neat, tidy), 小奇麗 (neat, tidy), 刈 (clip, cut, prune, reap, shear). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

トリム , しょうしゃ (casualty, elegant, exposure, firm, injured person, neat, ourcompany, prosperous person, refined, sentry box, small company, small shrine, trading company, victor, winner, wounded person, young person), せいぜん (accurate, aiming at the eye, during one's lifetime, oath, orderly, petition, regular, well-organized, west bank, west coast, westward advance, while alive), せいそ (fineness or coarseness, minuteness or roughness, neat and clean, tidy), かり (acting, assumed, borrowing, clip, cut, debt, fleeting, hunting, informal, interim, loan, lower official, potash, potassium, provisional, prune, reap, shear, temporary, unauthorized, wild goose), こぎれい (neat, tidy), こさっぱりした (neat, tidy). (various references)

Korean 

손질 (grooming). (various references)

Manx

stuitt (neat, stout), skeiogh, jeshey, jeshaghey (arrange, dress, grace, make up, service, smarten, tidy, toilet), jesh (adept, becoming, elegant, fancy, felicitous, groomed, neat, ready, righthand, rightwing, seemly, smart, starboard;nice, suitable, tidy), giarrey beg (buttonhole), cormaghey (balance, equalize, equate, level), baarey beg, arraghey (adjourn, adjournment, change, change course, digress, digression, dislodge, dislodgement, displacement, manoeuvre, motion, move, mutation, removal, remove, shift). (various references)

Pig Latin

imtray.(various references)

Portuguese

aparar (clip, detruncate, lop, mow, nib, pare, pare down, prune, skive, ward off, whittle). (various references)

Romanian

garnisi (fit out, garnish, set). (various references)

Russian 

уравновешивать (countervail, counterweigh, equilibrate, equiponderate, weigh up, weight out), украшение (adorner, adornment, beautification, decoration, embellishment, fallal, fal-lal, garnish, knick knack, molding, moulding, ornament, ornamentation, prettification, set off), состояние готовности, отделывать (decorate, finish, touch in, work up), отделка (finish, finishing, onlay, polish), аккуратный (accurate, exact, meticulous, natty, neat, on time, orderly, precise, prim, prompt, punctual, spruce, tidy), приспосабливаться (adapt oneself, conform), приспосабливать порядок, приводить в порядок (adjust, arrange, brush up, do up, fix, order, put in order, put into shape, rearrange, set in order, square up, straighten, straighten out, tidy up), порядок (exponent, kilter, order, rights), подстричь (cut), подрезать (dress, pare, prune, trim away, trim off, undercut). (various references)

Scottish

sgoinneil (attentive, neat, tidy), seabhach, gleusda (clever, expert, tidy, well-exercised), deas (dexterous, ready, right, right hand, south), cuimir (brief, concise, handsome, tidy). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

podšišati (clip), čvrst (firm, hard, hard and fast, solid, sound, stalwart, staunch, steadfast, steady, strong, sturdy, tenacious, tight, unwavering, wiry), doteran (groomed, polished, sleek, spruce, straight out, tricksy, trig, trimmed, well groomed), dovesti u red (arrange things, brush up, marshal, put in order, rally), drvenarija (woodwork), garnirati (garnish), karakter (character, lay, mettle, mold, mould, nature, personage), kondicija (fettle, form, shape), nakresati (prune), šišati (crop, cut), odeljati, uravnotežiti (balance, poise), podrezati (crop, undercut), podseći, potkresan (bobtailed, loppy), riš (ruche), u dobroj kondiciji, uglađen (genteel, polished, polite, refined, sleek, slick, smooth, suave), ugladiti (smooth, smooth out), ukrasi (finery, ornamentals), ukrasiti (adorn, array, decorate, emblazon, enchase, garnish, illuminate, ornament), ošišati (crop, cut, fleece). (various references)

Spanish

en buen estado (in fine fettle, in good order, orderly, sitting pretty). (various references)

Swedish

vårdad (cherished), trimma (soup up, tune up), putsa (clean, furbish, Grout, plaster, preen, shine). (various references)

Turkish

durum (attitude, ball game, case, circumstance, condition, conditions, conjuncture, context, estate, event, fact, fettle, footing, instance, lay, lie, occasion, pass, plight, position, posture, repair, score, set, set up, shape, showing, situation, situs, stance, stand, state, state of affairs, status, way), ayarlamak (adjust, arrange, assay, budget, calibrate, collimate, draw up, fix up, gear, justify, lay on, measure, proportion, regularize, regulate, reset, scale, set, Square, standardize, syntonize, time, tone, tune), azarlamak (admonish, baste, bawl out, berate, blame, blister, blow up, bring up, call down, call smb. over the coals, carpet, castigate, chew out, chide, come down on, decry, dress down, give a piece of one's mind, give smb. a talking-to, give smb. a telling-off, give smb. beans, give smb. hell, give the stick, inveigh, jaw out, keelhaul, lace into, lambaste, lash, lecture, let smb. have it, light into, objurgate, peck at smb., punish, rag, rail, rap smb. over the knuckles, rate, rebuke, reprehend, reprimand, reproach, reprove, roast, sail into, scold, score, slang, slap, slate, strafe, take to task, talk to smb., tell off, tell smb. one's mind, tick off, twit, upbraid, vituperate), biçimli (beautiful, clean-cut, clear-cut, figurate, shaped, shapely, sleek, well-cut, well-proportioned, well-shaped), budamak (amputate, chip, chop off, cut, cut back, lop, nip, nip off, pare, poll, Pollard, prune, prune away, prune off, truncate), düzeltmek (adjust, ameliorate, amend, arrange, better, clean up, correct, dub, emend, face-lift, fix, grade, grade up, haul up, heal, improve, justify, level, level off, level out, meliorate, mend, plane, planish, polish, polish up, reclaim, rectify, redress, refine, reform, regenerate, remedy, reorganize, right, set aright, slick, smooth, smooth away, smooth down, smooth out, smooth over, Spruce, spruce up, Square, straighten, straighten out, tidy up, try out, unbend, unscramble, upgrade), düzen (arrangement, array, contexture, convention, coordination, cosmos, disposal, disposition, formation, get up, harmony, layout, make up, method, order, orderliness, regime, regularity, regulation, right, scheme, system), araba döşemesi, derli toplu (orderly, respectable, tidy, well coordinated, well groomed), yenmek (annihilate, bear down, bear the bell, beat, beat all hollow, best, break, carry away the bell, checkmate, circumvent, clobber, confound, conquer, cut out, defeat, discomfit, down, floor, get the better of, give a beating, knock out, land, lick, master, outbox, outclass, outdo, outgo, overpower, pip, prevail, skunk, slam, smash, subjugate, surmount, swamp, thrash, triumph, trounce, vanquish, wallop, wear down, whelm, whip, whop, win over, wipe the floor with smb., worst), karıştırmak (add, admix, amalgamate, blend, churn, commingle, commix, complicate, concoct, confound, confuse, darken, diffuse, disarrange, disarray, discompose, disconcert, disorder, disorganize, disturb, embroil, entangle, ferret about, foul, foul up, hash, implicate, interfuse, interlace, interlard, intermingle, intermix, involve, inweave, jumble, jumble together, jumble up, knot, litter, make hay of smth., meld, mess, mess smth. about, mess up, mingle, mistake, mix, mix up, monkey around with, monkey with, muddle, muss, pick, poke, poke up, Ravel, ruffle, scramble, scramble together, scramble up, shuffle, snarl, stir, stir up, tamper with, tangle, tousle, tumble, unsettle, weave), süs (adornment, apparel, attire, decoration, embellishment, embroidery, encrustation, enrichment, facings, falbala, falbelo, fancy, finery, flamboyance, flourish, flower, frill, frippery, garnish, garnishment, garniture, get up, make up, ornament, ornamental, ornamentation, scrimshaw, setoff, setout, trimming), süsleme (adornment, décor, decoration, embellishment, enrichment, figuration, grace, grace note, ornament, ornamentation, trimming), süslemek (adorn, array, beautify, bedeck, bedight, caparison, crown, damask, deck out, decorate, dike, dizen, doll out, doll up, dress, dress up, embellish, embroider, enamel, enrich, fancy up, fig out, figure, flourish, garnish, gild, gird, grace, interlard, lace, lard, ornament, prank, prank out, prank up, rig, scrimshaw, set, smarten, tart up, tire, titivate, trick out, trick up, trig out, trig up, zing up, zip, zip up), uçlarından almak, vitrin düzeni, yelkenleri rüzgâra göre ayarlama, düzgün (clear-cut, Dandy, dandyish, fluent, formal, in good trim, ordered, regular, right, shapely, shipshape, slick, smooth, Spruce, Square, straight, unruffled). (various references)

Ukrainian

убрання (apparel, array, attire, caparison, cloth, clothes, costume, decoration, dress, feather, raiment, turn out, vesture), чепурний (cleanly, deft, dink, natty, neat), вишуканий (accomplished, ambitious, becoming, chic, choice, courtly, dainty, delicate, distinguished, dressmaker, exquisite, fine, foppish, kid glove, minion, nice, nutty, polished, polite, precious, quaint, recherche, way up), підрізування (clipping, paring, polling, pruning), підрізати (barb, clip, pare, prune, tip), прикрашати (adorn, apparel, beautify, bedeck, bespread, brighten, caparison, color, colour, deck, decorate, dress, dress out, embellish, embroider, flatter, garnish, gloss over, grace, needle, ornament, ornamentalize, prettify, set forth, smug, sugar coat, trim up, varnish), приводити в порядок (right, shape), порядок (kilter, order, orderliness, rank, shape). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự ngăn nắp (tidiness), sự gọn gàng trạng thái sẵn sàng y phục, ngăn nắp (tidy, well-ordered), gọn gàng (business-like), chỉnh tề (trig). (various references)

Welsh

trwsio (bedeck, dress, mend, repair), tacluso (tidy), taclus (neat, tidy), taclu (accoutre, put in order), cymhennu (put in order, reprove, scold), amlymu (clear). (various references)

guz. (various references)

adtondebitis, adtondent, adtondentur, adtonsi, orna, ornabant, ornabatur, ornaberis, ornabit, ornanda, ornandam, ornandum, ornant, ornantes, ornare, ornaret, ornasti, ornat, ornata, ornatam, ornati, ornatis, ornato, ornatu, ornatum, ornaturum, ornatus, ornaverunt, ornavi, ornavit, ornent. (various references)

parer. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "trim": trimaran, trimarans, trimer, trimeric, trimerous, trimers, trimester, trimesters, trimeter, trimeters, trimethoprim, trimethoprims, trimetrogon, trimetrogons, trimly, trimmed, trimmer, trimmers, trimmest, trimming, trimmings, trimness, trimnesses, trimonthly, trimorph, trimorphic, trimorphs, trimotor, trimotors, trims. (additional references)

Words ending with "trim": overtrim, pretrim, retrim, untrim. (additional references)

Words containing "trim": detriment, detrimental, detrimentally, detrimentals, detriments, matrimonial, matrimonially, matrimonies, matrimony, nutriment, nutriments, overtrimmed, overtrimming, overtrims, patrimonial, patrimonies, patrimony, pretrimmed, pretrimming, pretrims, retrimmed, retrimming, retrims, titrimetric, untrimmed, untrimming, untrims. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Trim" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atrim, drim, Etrim, irim, Krim, strim, taim, tarim, terem, thim, thrim, thrime, tim, timj, Timm, tir, tirm, tirn, tirq, tirv, toim, Toimi, torem, torim, torin, traim, traj, tran, tream, treim, trem, trib, tric, trid, trif, trik, trime, trimy, trin, trint, triom, triq, trit, triu, trium, triv, triw, trix, triz, trom, Troma, tromf, truin, trum, tryi, trym, Tsim, tti, twim, wrim. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: mir, rim.

-2 letters: it, mi, ti.

+1 letter: merit, mirth, miter, mitre, remit, timer, trims.

+2 letters: amrita, armpit, atrium, hermit, imaret, impart, import, iterum, maftir, martin, matrix, merits, metier, metric, milter, minter, mirths, mister, miters, mither, mitier, mitral, mitred, mitres, permit, ramtil, reemit, remint, remits, remixt, retime, retrim, smiter, tamari, thairm, thiram, timber, timbre, timers, trimer, trimly, truism, untrim.

+3 letters: airtime, amirate, amorist, amritas, armpits, atriums, brutism, crampit, demerit, dimeter, emerita, emeriti, emirate, emitter, emptier, eremite, erotism, firmest, furmity, hermits, imarets, imbrute, imparts, imports, imprest, imprint, imputer, interim, limiter, maestri, maftirs, maltier, mantric, marital, marlite, marmite, martial, martian, marting, martini, martins, meatier, merited, metiers, metrics, metrify, metring, metrist, midterm, migrant, migrate, milters, miltier, minaret, minster, minters, mintier, minuter, miriest, mirkest, mispart, misrate, missort, misterm, misters, mistier, mistral, miswrit, mitered, miterer, mithers, mitring, mixture, moister, monitor, mortice, mortify, mortise, mothier, motlier, motoric, muriate, mustier, mythier, natrium, omitter, permits, premixt, pretrim, primate, protium, ragtime, raiment, ramtils, readmit, reemits, remints, retimed, retimes, retrims, rimiest, simitar, sistrum, smartie, smiters, tamarin, tamaris, terbium, terming, termini, termite, thairms, thermic, thirams, thorium, thrombi, thymier, timarau, timbers, timbral, timbrel, timbres, timider, tourism, triduum, triform, trigram, trimers, trimmed, trimmer, trireme, triseme, trismic, trismus, trisome, trisomy, tritium, tritoma, triumph, trivium, tropism, truisms, tsarism, tumbril, turmoil, tzarism, unmiter, unmitre, untrims, varmint, vitamer, vomiter, wartime, yttrium.