Thesaurus
trimming
Synonyms and Antonyms of trimming
- our football team suffered a pretty severe trimming
Synonyms and Antonyms of trimming
- a speed skater who consistently trimmed all his competition
edging (out), nosing out, pipping [British]
annihilating, blowing away, blowing out, bombing, breaking, burying, clobbering, creaming, crushing, drubbing, finishing, flattening, overwhelming, routing, shellacking, skinning, slaughtering, smoking [slang], snowing under, thrashing, trouncing, upsetting, walloping, waxing [slang], whipping
capping, excelling, flourishing, scoring, succeeding
knocking off, knocking over, overpowering, overthrowing, subjugating, unseating, vanquishing
acing (out), bettering, eclipsing, exceeding, excelling, outdistancing, outdoing, outfighting, outshining, outstripping, overtopping, surpassing, topping, transcending
- they trimmed our team by 40 points
annihilating, blowing away, bombing, burying, clobbering, creaming, drubbing, dusting, flattening, pasting, routing, shellacking, skinning, skunking, smoking [slang], smothering, snowing under, thrashing, tromping, trouncing, walloping, waxing [slang], whipping, whomping, whopping (or whapping), whupping
beating, besting, conquering, dispatching, hurdling, licking, mastering, overbearing, overcoming, overmatching, prevailing (over), subduing, surmounting, taking, throwing, triumphing (over), winning (against), worsting
crushing, knocking off, knocking over, overpowering, overthrowing, overwhelming, subjugating, upending, vanquishing
acing (out), bettering, eclipsing, exceeding, outdistancing, outdoing, outfighting, outshining, outstripping, overtopping, surpassing, topping, transcending
edging (out), nosing out, pipping [British]
capping, excelling, flourishing, scoring, succeeding
breaking, destroying, doing in, finishing, sinking, slaughtering
- trimmed her bangs
- trim a tree for Christmas
adorning, arraying, beautifying, bedecking, bedizening, blazoning, caparisoning, decking, decorating, doing, doing up, dolling up, draping, dressing, embellishing, emblazing, embossing, enriching, fancifying, fancying up, festooning, garnishing, glitzing (up), gracing, gussying up, ornamenting, prettying (up)
accessorizing, dressing up, trapping, tricking (out)
brightening, freshening, smartening, sprucing (up)
braiding, embroidering, feathering, figuring, filigreeing, filleting, flouncing, frilling, fringing, furbelowing, garlanding, hanging, lacing, ribboning, swagging, wreathing
appliquéing, gilding, painting
diamonding, gemming, impearling, jeweling (or jewelling), pearling
- trimmed the shrubbery in order to enhance the house's curb appeal
neatening, picking up, redding (up or out) [chiefly dialect], sprucing (up), straightening (up or out), tidying (up)
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