verb
- Remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size.
- usage: "pare one's fingernails"; "trim the photograph"; "trim lumber"
- Decorate, as with ornaments.
- usage: "trim the christmas tree"; "trim a shop window"
- synonyms: trim
- Cut down on; make a reduction in.
- usage: "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"
- Balance in flight by regulating the control surfaces.
- usage: "trim an airplane"
- synonyms: trim
- Be in equilibrium during a flight.
- usage: "The airplane trimmed"
- synonyms: trim
- Decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods.
- Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of.
- usage: "dress the plants in the garden"
- Cut closely.
- usage: "trim my beard"
- Adjust (sails on a ship) so that the wind is optimally used.
- synonyms: trim
adjective
- Made neat and tidy by trimming.
- usage: "his neatly trimmed hair"
- synonyms: cut
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