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strim

/stɹɪm/

strim verb: to cut using a strimmer/string trimmer.

Verb

strim (third-person singular simple present strims, present participle strimming, simple past and past participle strimmed)

  1. (UK) To cut using a strimmer/string trimmer.
    • Videos showed a badger entering a sett less than two metres from where the contractors had been using petrol hedge-trimmers to strim brambles, the resident said.2023 January 22, Jane Dalton, “Developers ‘clearing wildlife habitats without approval to win planning permission’”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from...

Forms of strim

third-person singular presentstrims
present participlestrimming
past participlestrimmed
paststrimmed

Origin of strim

Back-formation from strimmer, originally a trademark.

Words that rhyme with strim

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Questions about strim

What does strim mean?
Strim means to cut using a strimmer/string trimmer.
What part of speech is strim?
Strim is a verb.
How do you pronounce strim?
Strim is pronounced /stɹɪm/.
What is the past tense of strim?
The past tense of strim is strimmed.

Words near strim in the dictionary

  1. strikings
  2. strikt
  3. strikter
  4. striktest
  5. strillers
  6. strim
  7. strimmed
  8. strimmer
  9. strimmers
  10. strimming
  11. strims

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