| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. Something that adorns: adornment, decoration, embellishment, garnishment, garniture, ornament, ornamentation, trimming. See BEAUTIFUL. 2. A state of sound readiness: condition, fettle, fitness, form, kilter, order, shape. See BETTER. | | VERB: | 1. To furnish with decorations: adorn, bedeck, deck2 (out), decorate, dress (up), embellish, garnish, ornament. See BEAUTIFUL. 2. Informal. To punish with blows or lashes: beat, flog, hide2, lash, thrash, whip. Slang : lay into, lick. See ATTACK, REWARD. 3. Informal. To get money or something else from by deceitful trickery: bilk, cheat, cozen, defraud, gull, mulct, rook, swindle, victimize. Informal : chisel, flimflam, take. Slang : diddle1, do, gyp, stick, sting. See HONEST. 4. To decrease, as in length or amount, by or as if by severing or excising: chop1, clip1, crop, cut, cut back, cut down, lop1, lower2, pare, prune, shear, slash, truncate. See INCREASE. 5. Informal. To win a victory over, as in battle or a competition: beat, best, conquer, defeat, master, overcome, prevail against or (over), rout, subdue, subjugate, surmount, triumph over, vanquish, worst. Informal : whip. Slang : ace, lick. Idioms: carry (or win) the day, get (or have) the best of, get (or have) the better of, go someone one better. See WIN. 6. To make a slight reduction in (a price): shade, shave. See INCREASE. 7. To make neat and trim; make presentable: clean (up), freshen (up), groom, neaten (up), slick up, spruce (up), tidy (up), trig (out). See ORDER. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. In good order or clean condition: neat, orderly, shipshape, snug, spick-and-span, spruce, taut, tidy, trig, well-groomed. Chiefly British : tight. Idioms: neat as a pin. See CLEAN, ORDER. 2. Having slender and graceful lines: sleek, streamlined. See BEAUTIFUL. | | PHRASAL VERB: | trim down To lose body weight, as by dieting: reduce, slim (down). See FAT, INCREASE.
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