Crossword-Solution: TRIM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Trim | v. t. | To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust. |
| Trim | v. t. | To dress; to decorate; to adorn; to invest; to embellish; as, to trim a hat. |
| Trim | v. t. | To make ready or right by cutting or shortening; to clip or lop; to curtail; as, to trim the hair; to trim a tree. |
| Trim | v. t. | To dress, as timber; to make smooth. |
| Trim | v. t. | To adjust, as a ship, by arranging the cargo, or disposing the weight of persons or goods, so equally on each side of the center and at each end, that she shall sit well on the water and sail well; as, to trim a ship, or a boat. |
| Trim | v. t. | To arrange in due order for sailing; as, to trim the sails. |
| Trim | v. t. | To rebuke; to reprove; also, to beat. |
| Trim | v. i. | To balance; to fluctuate between parties, so as to appear to favor each. |
| Trim | n. | Dress; gear; ornaments. |
| Trim | n. | Order; disposition; condition; as, to be in good trim. |
| Trim | n. | The state of a ship or her cargo, ballast, masts, etc., by which she is well prepared for sailing. |
| Trim | n. | The lighter woodwork in the interior of a building; especially, that used around openings, generally in the form of a molded architrave, to protect the plastering at those points. |
| Trim | v. t. | Fitly adjusted; being in good order., or made ready for service or use; firm; compact; snug; neat; fair; as, the ship is trim, or trim built; everything about the man is trim; a person is trim when his body is well shaped and firm; his dress is trim when it fits closely to his body, and appears tight and snug; a man or a soldier is trim when he stands erect. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TRIM | anagram | RMIT |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with TRIM (5)
Had he a moustache—no whiskers or beard?” “He had.” “What kind of a person is he?” “Oh! miss—I blush to name it—a gay man! But I know him to be very quick and trim, who might have made his thousands, like a squire.
The linen was white and fresh, the darkies were trim and smiling, and the sunlight gleamed pleasantly upon the silver and the glass water-bottles.
The girl’s thoughts wandered from her impending nuptials, that would make her empress of Kaol, to the person of the trim young Heliumite who had laid his heart at her feet the preceding day.
They kept Emmeline’s room trim and nice, and all the things fixed in it just the way she liked to have them when she was alive, and nobody ever slept there.
Hepzibah bade her young guest sit down, and, herself taking a chair near by, looked as earnestly at Phœbe’s trim little figure as if she expected to see right into its springs and motive secrets.
Quotes with TRIM (3)
Most of the world is either asleep or dead. The religious people are, for the most part, asleep. The irreligious are dead. Those who are asleep are divided into two classes, like the Virgins in the parable, waiting for the Bridegroom's coming. The wise have oil in their lamps. That is to say they are detached from themselves and from the cares of the world, and they are full of charity. They are indeed waiting for the Bridegroom, and they desire nothing else but His coming, e…
The Author To Her Book Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain, Who after birth did'st by my side remain, Till snatcht from thence by friends, less wise than true, Who thee abroad exposed to public view, Made thee in rags, halting to th' press to trudge, Where errors were not lessened (all may judge).At thy return my blushing was not small, My rambling brat (in print) should mother call. I cast thee by as one unfit for light, The visage was so irksome in my sight, Yet be…
Anyone and everyone taking a writing class knows that the secret of good writing is to cut it back, pare it down, winnow, chop, hack, prune, and trim, remove every superfluous word, compress, compress, compress... Actually, when you think about it, not many novels in the Spare tradition are terribly cheerful. Jokes you can usually pluck out whole, by the roots, so if you're doing some heavy-duty prose-weeding, they're the first to go. And there's some stuff about the whole wi…
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Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 613 times in crossword archives (1944–2025).