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Synonyms & Antonyms of trimming
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- our football team suffered a pretty severe trimming
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trimming
verbSynonyms & Antonyms of trimming (Entry 2 of 2)
- a speed skater who consistently trimmed all his competition
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- 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
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- they trimmed our team by 40 points
Synonyms for trimming
- 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
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- 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]
Phrases Synonymous with trimming
- trimmed her bangs
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- trim a tree for Christmas
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- 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)
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- trimmed the shrubbery in order to enhance the house's curb appeal
Synonyms for trimming
- neatening,
- picking up,
- redding (up or out)
- [chiefly dialect],
- sprucing (up),
- straightening (up or out),
- tidying (up)
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The first known use of trimming was circa 1525
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