Meanings
verbstrim (third-person singular simple present strims, present participle strimming, simple past and past participle strimmed)
present singular third person strims · participle present strimming · participle past strimmed · past strimmed
- UKTo 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
Origin
Back-formation from strimmer, originally a trademark.
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Cite this entry
APA
strim. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/strim
MLA
“strim.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/strim. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “strim,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/strim.
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