trim down

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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 downshorten - 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 substancecut - 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

verb1. 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 downTo lose body weight, as by dieting:reduce, slim (down).noun1. A state of sound readiness:condition, fettle, fitness, form, kilter, order, shape.2. Something that adorns:adornment, decoration, embellishment, garnishment, garniture, ornament, ornamentation, trimming.adjective1. 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.

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