strim en · VERB
Pronunciation
- /stɹɪm/
Etymology
Back-formation from strimmer, originally a trademark.
Meanings
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(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 the original on 22 Jan 2023:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| strims | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| strimmed | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| strimmed | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| strimming | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |