trim down
phrasal verb
trimmed down; trimming down; trims down
: to become thinner : to lose weight
He trimmed down over the summer.
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The last-minute decision leaves the nation’s largest and least-funded land manager without a director or a deputy director at a time when the agency is being reshaped and trimmed down amid mass layoffs.
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Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 10 Apr. 2025
One video, shared to a barber's TikTok account in January, showed a client trimming down his lashes nearly to the skin.
—Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 10 Apr. 2025
The Trump administration has aggressively worked to trim down the federal bureaucracy since Trump took office, in coordination with Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.
—Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
But that's a problem that this sleek and trimmed down 14-inch laptop won’t have.
—Jade Chung-Lee, PCMAG, 18 Mar. 2025
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Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 10 Apr. 2025
One video, shared to a barber's TikTok account in January, showed a client trimming down his lashes nearly to the skin.
—Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 10 Apr. 2025
The Trump administration has aggressively worked to trim down the federal bureaucracy since Trump took office, in coordination with Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.
—Amanda Castro, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
But that's a problem that this sleek and trimmed down 14-inch laptop won’t have.
—Jade Chung-Lee, PCMAG, 18 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for trim down
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“Trim down.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trim%20down. Accessed 8 May. 2025.
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