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TRIMMED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Made neat and tidy by trimming
Example:
his neatly trimmed hair
Synonyms:
cut; trimmed
Classified under:
Similar:
clipped (cut or trimmed by clipping)
Antonym:
untrimmed (not trimmed)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb trim
Context examples:
Their harbour drill and their harbour gunnery had been of no service when sails had to be trimmed and broadsides fired on the heave of an Atlantic swell.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Merely looking at me with extravagant slyness, and not waiting for any reply, she continued, without drawing breath: There! If ever any scapegrace was trimmed and touched up to perfection, you are, Steerforth.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I had closed my shutter, laid a mat to the door to prevent the snow from blowing in under it, trimmed my fire, and after sitting nearly an hour on the hearth listening to the muffled fury of the tempest, I lit a candle, took down Marmion, and beginning—I soon forgot storm in music.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
He had found a longish fir-tree lying felled and trimmed in the enclosure, and with the help of Hunter he had set it up at the corner of the log-house where the trunks crossed and made an angle.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Before the gates were three young girls, dressed in handsome red uniforms trimmed with gold braid; and as Dorothy approached, one of them said to her: Why have you come to the South Country?
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
In the opposite corner there sat a very burly and broad-shouldered man, clad in a black jerkin trimmed with sable, with a black velvet cap with curling white feather cocked upon the side of his head.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
My blue housedress looks so well, turned and freshly trimmed, that I feel as if I'd got a new one.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
In that moment White Fang was in upon him and out, in passing ripping his trimmed remnant of an ear.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Lashing the wheel I ran forward, eased the fore and mainsheets, took in on the boom-tackles and trimmed everything for the quartering breeze which was ours.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Boots which extended halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence which was suggested by his whole appearance.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
