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untrimming

untrimming is the present participle and gerund of untrim.

Meaning of untrim

Verb

untrim (third-person singular simple present untrims, present participle untrimming, simple past and past participle untrimmed)

  1. (transitive) To remove the trimmings or adornments from.
    • She was trimming a very smart straw hat with pink ribbons; trimming and untrimming, for the bows were tied and untied, taken off and put on, and taken off again, with a look of impatience and discontent […]1824-1832, Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village
  2. To restore the original shape of (a surface that has been trimmed).

Questions about untrimming

What is untrimming the present participle and gerund of?
Untrimming is the present participle and gerund of untrim.

Words near untrimming in the dictionary

  1. untrills
  2. untrim
  3. untrimmable
  4. untrimmed
  5. untrimmedness
  6. untrimming
  7. untrims
  8. untrinilium
  9. untrinitarian
  10. untrip
  11. untripentium

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Adapted from Wiktionary: untrimming (page history and authors); untrim (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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