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betrimming

betrimming is the gerund of betrim.

betrimming is the present participle and gerund of betrim.

Meaning of betrim

Verb

betrim (third-person singular simple present betrims, present participle betrimming, simple past and past participle betrimmed)

  1. (dated, transitive) To trim (“decorate”); to adorn, deck, or embellish.
    • Thy bankes with pioned, and twilled brims / Which ſpungie Aprill, at thy heſt betrims; / To make cold Nymphes chaſt crownes; […]1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...

Forms of betrimming

pluralbetrimmings

Origin of betrimming

From betrim + -ing.

Questions about betrimming

What is betrimming the gerund of?
Betrimming is the gerund of betrim.

Words near betrimming in the dictionary

  1. betreed
  2. betrench
  3. betrick
  4. betrim
  5. betrimmed
  6. betrimming
  7. betrimmings
  8. betrims
  9. betrixaban
  10. Betrock
  11. Betrocks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: betrimming (page history and authors); betrim (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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